Suddenly we are introduced to a zooming shot, where the camera is quickly zooming into a corner of a boxing ring, which then captures two boxers fighting high angle wide shot used to show them fighting, following this there is a shot at eye level showing a woman, presumably one of the fighters' wives, in shock, and his friend. the shots are generally very fast, which would make the audience notice it is an action, since that fast is usually inherited with fighting or action films. After an extremely quick shot of the main character's face at an extreme close up, there are a few match on action shots used, for example the camera switches from a mid shot of a jab being thrown, to a cross being thrown to the other boxer, however the shot used quickly changes to a low angle high definition shot possibly showing the audience one of the boxer's technique and effectiveness of the punch. Following this there is a sequence of shots generally at eye level and are no further than mid shots.
The next shot is of the camera zooming outwards from the boxing ring, denoting the end of the fight, followed by a very wide shot of a house, through using this technique, it implies to the audience that it is one of the boxers' houses, and tells the audience that their family is fairly successful, since the house is of a fairly large size, and since the beginning, where the character is shown to have won the fight, the audience can assume that he has won many fights, skipping few a short sequence of close up shots and low angle shots from the daughter's perspective, we are shown a high angle still shot of a city, possibly LA, which is very interesting to the audience because it also reinforces the fact that the character is fairly wealthy, and a successful fighter, and could imply that later on the character faces hardships and starts failing in his career, which is fairly cliché but is possible.
Following this there is a short dolly shot of two characters walking into a hall, and after some action clips, oddly at low angle, there is a tracking shot of a character sitting at a memorial.
mise en scene: First of all since this is a boxing film, it includes boxing shorts, gloves, wraps, mouth guards, e.t.c. the lighting is fairly dull throughout the beginning of the trailer, this could be to symbolise that everything is hazy for the audience or for the character, the lights are shining on the boxing ring, which could also suggest to the audience that the fighting has a big impact and role on the film.
Some other props included in this film are guns, lighting, and many other various props. many of the facial expressions, seemed pain filled, some other clothing includes a hoodie, which many boxers wear, this is because they want to remain anonymous on day to day tasks, and this also symbolises that he is famous, many people know him and would want to talk to him.
However this could also resemble something which the audience would be able to pick out, for example during an earlier shot of him in desperation, crying on his bed with a loaded gun, it could show that the character is in denial of himself and is ashamed of himself.
sound: The sound consisted of a good mix between diegetic and non diegetic, for example, sounds of punching, were matched in time with music, to add emphasis on the punching, and to make the audience notice how hard the punches were being thrown. However at the very beginning there is a soft piano song, which is where after the sound effects of the punching, the music becomes more hip hop, showing off the action. when something bad happens, more dialogue is introduced, a lot of music is fitting to the narration by a judge. the music becomes more sinister, and eventually becomes loud, more dubstep, when the character is put into action.
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