Genre investigation 'Pain & Gain'

Genre Investigation 'Pain & Gain'

By Connor Taylor

A massive part of a film is its genre and its intended genre, without the structure of a genre, the film will also have no structure and no proper narrative or guidelines for editing lighting and mise-en-scene. Therefore I thought it would be very useful if I were to increase my knowledge of how companies use these aspects in trailers to portray the genre.

Pain & Gain:
Genre's - Action, crime, comedy

For the first to trailer to deconstruct I decided to use Pain and Gain because it has major ties to our film narrative with the major aspect of money being the main drive for the protagonist and many shots that have similarities such as with partying shots and drugs and drinks.

In this shot there is clear representation of genre with the main protagonist running and the police car in the background, suggesting they are after him and that he has commited a crime and therefore presenting crime genre.

Then with this shot of a 'party coastline' is used as an establishing shot, like our establishing shots of London, however this one is used to show the party lifestyle of the protagonists now that they have money, very similar to our protagonist and his narrative through the trailer.

This shot of a party scene presents that genre of action and crime due to the adjacent shots of the protagonists taking drugs.

Then this shot of the protagonist hitting an officer in the back with a crowbar, which presents both action and crime very strongly.