Action Trailer #4 - The Mechanic

Within the first 10 seconds of this trailer there are typical conventions of the action genre, masculine main character with a deep mysterious voice, a speed boat, shots of a variety of guns, expensive cars and money both connoting wealth. We start to get an idea of who this man is when he skilfully kills a man, our initial thoughts is dislike towards this man as he is a murderer, the audience also realise he is a professional through the amount of skill and knowledge her had when killing this man. An area of business is then introduced, where the main man is given a job, the audience start to see where and how the story is developing. Montage of jump shots is used shows all his stunts a skills. Slow motion is used showing a house blow up, this is effective as the audience attention is drawn to watching this house slowly catch alight. this leads to a long distance shot of a big explosion conforms to action genre stereotypes. Up until this time there has been little non diegetic music only a discreet tune which is slowly building tension. Rock music is then introduced as another montage of action shots are played this creates excitement and thrill. Quick close up shot of the man having sex with a girl conforms to stereotypes that the main character in action films are womanisers. There is a mass amount of guns being shown and used in this trailer, conforming to stereotypes finally the amount of voice overs used tell the audience how the story is developing while their eyes are drawn to the action scenes.