In the opening scene of this Action and adventure film I Am Legend staring Will Smith there has been many conventions embedded within the opening couple of minutes. There is a fast intense chase when the main character is chasing down his food that he needs to survive and also a hair raising adventure right at the start. This shows that this short extract of the opening scene shows many conventions of a action and adventure film.Generally there is always weapons within action and adventure films and straight from the start of the film within the first two minutes it is clear that the main character is holding a gun suggesting that he is in danger or he needs to protect himself from whatever is out there in the abandoned city. Another convention that action and adventure films have is that they are normally located within a big city, from the first two minutes we can see that the film is located in one of the biggest well known cities in the world New York in the USA. The film being set in New York will attract audiences from all around the world because they know exactly where it is as it is such a well known city, this makes them want to watch the film. In most action and adventure films they have furious cars which look good, the first picture we see is of a loud, fast red mustang driving really at a high speed through the lonely streets. Having this scene right at the start gets the audience excited and on the edge of their seat literally and means they are gripped from right at the start and want to watch the whole film to the end. Finally the last convention that im going to speak about is goodies and baddies or hero and villain, every single action and adventure has them and this is because they make the film really exciting and interesting. We can see from the opening two minutes that Will smith is obviously the hero and there is something out there which is the villain but we don't get to see whatever it is just yet.