Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 crime film set in America. The film was very successful and was nominated for many Oscars and other film awards.
From the trailer you can not tell much about the narrative or the characters however, the use of weapons and drugs establish the crime genre.
John Travolta and Samuel Jackson are dressed in black suits which helps the audience identify them as hit men. Props such as guns, cars, money and suggestions of drug use throughout the trailer highlights the crime theme.
At the beginning of the trailer the fast music connotes the fast lifestyle the hit men have which works well with the editing technique of using fast cuts and loads of different shots.
The music then becomes a lot slower and calmer and the shots are separated by a plain back background with the words 'loyalty' 'betrayal' and 'crime' fading onto the screen. This connotes that the life of hit men is not always at a high and it comes with it lows and unstable lifestyle.
The music then goes back to an upbeat tune and a number of different shots appear showing the crazy lifestyle they normally have such as going to clubs, getting drunk and driving recklessly.
Although crime and horror can sometimes overlap, this trailer doesn't share many conventions that a horror trailer has and that is what makes it clear that these genres are very different.
At the beginning of the trailer the fast music connotes the fast lifestyle the hit men have which works well with the editing technique of using fast cuts and loads of different shots.
The music then becomes a lot slower and calmer and the shots are separated by a plain back background with the words 'loyalty' 'betrayal' and 'crime' fading onto the screen. This connotes that the life of hit men is not always at a high and it comes with it lows and unstable lifestyle.
The music then goes back to an upbeat tune and a number of different shots appear showing the crazy lifestyle they normally have such as going to clubs, getting drunk and driving recklessly.
Although crime and horror can sometimes overlap, this trailer doesn't share many conventions that a horror trailer has and that is what makes it clear that these genres are very different.
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