The Lord Is My Shotgun

A robbery had just gone wrong, and these four goons now come in contact with a violent, cruel and vengeful cop at the car park exit.
The protagonist character followers the stereotypes of many action hero, he’s a casual person this is reinforced by his clothing where he’s wearing a suit and jacket – making him appear profession and business like, he also smokes whilst he’s is the process of killing the criminal. All of this followers many heroic stenotypes as his style, manner and facial expression all reflect his disregard to the situation his in and his unconcern of being in danger. He acts as if killing is a norm and part of his everyday life.

This short film clearly uses many of the codes and convention is the action film genre
Examples include
- Props, the gun
- Criminals wearing masks
- Slow tempo music, which creates an tense atmosphere as we are anticipating something to happen
- Stunts of character flying back when he gets shot
- Blood
- POV shot – which puts us in the protagonist character perspective
- Fighting scene
- Dramatic twist where the hero gets unexpectedly gets knocked by a criminal from behind.