Tracers

My favourite camera shot from the beginning scene of Tracers is when the four free runners are going from building to building and the camera is attached to one of them so as they are jumping over buildings it makes you feel like you are part of it with them. Another one of my favourite camera shots is when Cam (played by Taylor Lautner) is riding through the streets on his bikes but they kept on cutting to the free runners, this is effective because it makes you think that maybe at first they are racing each other.

In the first scene the music is really up beat, fast and accelerated to show that the free runners are trying to get away from something (if you have watched the film then you will know that they are thieves that use free running as a way of getting away from the crime). Cam is a bike messenger that is in a hurry to deliver a message so that he can finish, but you wouldn't think that's all, by the cuts from both of the scenes you would also think that they are all in a rush to meet each other.
Tracers uses fast pace editing to bring the effect of everyone is in a rush to get somewhere which makes the audience think, where are they in a rush to get to?
Cam (Taylor Lautner) is wearing sports wear, this show that Cam is very sporty and athletic, which fits in with the film as the film is based on running and using different skills to get away from the crime that they have committed. In the beginning scene the free runners are dressed in track suit bottoms and a hoodie with their hoods up this suggests that they trying to hide their faces from someone so they wont get caught and so when they need to they can suddenly blend in with the crowd.

From the beginning scene you can tell that the storyline is going to be based on Cam meeting Nikki (played by Marie Avgeropoulos) when she is running from the police they bump into each other, you can see by Taylors facial extractions that he wasn't going to stop until he found her again and they we're together.

The title for Tracers is effective because it's nothing big its just Tracers on a black background for a couple of seconds then gets bigger suggesting that anything can start of small and can get as big as they like. Just like Cam he started of a bike messenger then ended up doing more in his life and he found true love.

We know that the genre of Tracers is action through all of the stunts and chasing in the first scene. You can also tell that its a crime themed film when the police was coming towards Nikki (Marie Avgeropoulos) when Cam feel on top of her and the camera was pointing towards the police coming towards them. The last genre is drama but you can't really tell this until the second scene.