Genre Conventions
- The trailer begins with a shortened and dimly lit version of the Lionsgate logo.
- The genre of the movie is instantly apparent when the trailer begins with armed military personel taking position around a house.
- A convention of thriller trailers is the use of solemn voice overs and audio carrying over from one camera shot to another.
- There is instantly action in this movie but it is only apparent that this is a thriller further into the movie as the characters and locations are established.
- This trailer also features the use of fades to black between a large number of the scenes.
- A convention of thriller trailers is the use of text on black screens giving further information and context from dramatic phrases.
- There is extremely dramatic non diegetic music throughout this trailer which grows to a crescendo at the climax of the trailer.
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