Genre

Crime/Gangster Conventions:

• Likely to take place in a big city in the US
• Most public scenes are done in seedy alleyways and wharves of the urban jungle
• Survival of the fittest state of mind
• Power struggle takes place between the main character and main foe
• The whole gangster life is glorified greatly
• Family comes first
• Gangs are allocated by immigrant roots (Italian,Cuban etc)
•  Fairly immune to the law 
• Material goods (Cars,clothes,houses and cars) as well as women take a big role in measuring the success of a charachters
• The hero is usually a drug lord and his main way of making money is through drug trade (Usually cocaine)
• Betrayal is very common
• The end justifies the mean

Two classic gangster movies that portray many of these conventions are "The Godfather" and "Goodfellas"

The Godfather:

Goodfellas:

My Film:

The genre and conventions shown in these films are relevant to the type of movie I am looking to make with my group so I plan on using the information I've gathered from my research to remember what kind of conventions I should include in my film to attract my target audience.It also gave me an idea of what's too typical and cliché in gangster genre movies.