Initial Ideas: Action Genre

Initial Ideas

Action Genre

We are thinking of doing a trailer for an action genre as we believe that it will challenge us to create a trailer which engages to a larger audience. Action trailers will normally feature conventions such as  weaponry, explosions and a variety of shots such as establishing shots and extreme close ups. There should also be fast paced editing to show the scenes of fighting which will entertain the audience and there will be scene that will include slow motion to exaggerate the actions. We will try and include as many of these conforming conventions so that the audiences expectation can fulfilled. We target our trailer at a male audience of young adults and middle aged as stereotypically they like to see a film that includes guns, stunts and fast cars.

We have taken inspiration from The Avengers and The Equalizer as these trailers creates suspense and builds tensions throughout the trailer, further engaging the target audience. These trailers both include fast paced editing and fighting scenes which are conventions of an action. They both also hold the attention of the audience so that they would want to go and see the film to find out what’s happening as a lot of is still unknown. This is usually done by the music being fast paced and creating tension or keeping the audience in suspense. Also the use of the actors names in these trailers allow the audience to see who is in the film, encouraging them as they may have seen the films that they have previously been in and so will want to see these. In our trailer we will ensure that we have the names of the actors shown clearly so that they can be easily identified and therefore the audience will be able to notice them better.