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Over the weekend I watched a film called focus, released in 2015. It came under the genre of romantic crime. I later looked up other types of romantic crime movies and found Mr and Mrs Smith and the tourist came under this genre, which of both I really enjoyed. Due to this I decided to change the genre of the film opening I'm going to create to this. Whilst watching 'focus' I realised the film makers used a lot of close up shots to show the characters emotions but also many long shots when showing an action in a particular scene. Below I have attached a number of photos from movies within the romantic crime section.


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