Film Opening #no.2

This is part of the opening scene for the film Fast and Furious (fast and furious 4). The genre of this film is action. I can tell that's it's an action film because when you watch the opening scene, you will see fast cars at high speed, gun violence and a young woman coming close to death. All of these are conventions of an action packed film because when people watch the film, or the opening scene this is the sort of thing that people would expect to see, lots of car speed, explosions,girls and violence/killings. If these conventions was not in a an action film, it wouldn't really be an action film because the audience wouldn't be the least bit interested and they wouldn't be as excited to watch the film.

Another convention of this opening scene is the background music. Although there isn't really any background music, when you watch the opening scene you can hear the sound of speeding cars, cars swerving around on the road and gun shots. This tells the audience that there's going to be a lot of dangerous things happening, which could get the audience excited, also there's a part in the opening where a young woman nearly falls off the truck and she is hanging on with her one arm trying to get back up, then she leaps from the truck onto the car bonnet. This also tells the audience that not only are dangerous things happening, but also peoples lives are going to be at high risk. This could keep the audience watching because they might want to know what happens next.

The target audience for this film are teenagers and adults because there is quite a lot of explosions,car chases,violent murders and there are one or two sex scenes throughout the film. This film wouldn't be suitable for children under the age of 15/16 because the film itself could be a bad influence on its audience. For example if a child watches this film, they might think that what is going on in the film is okay to do in real life and they could end up in serious trouble.

The symbolic codes of this film are the fast cars to signify that the film is going to be an action genre, the girls  signify the sexual nature which is part of the film and the gun shots which signify violence.