The film 'The Dark Knight Rises' is one of the 3 Dark Knight films to be released.

The film genre is action/thriller and it shows this through a variety of conventions. The first visual we see is a high shot of Gotham. Straight away as an audience we familiarise ourselves with the city as we know the city is the main setting of all other Batman films as it is where Bruce Wayne/Batman has grew up since a child. It is a city of crime and chaos which could be seen as a Binary opposition of Order versus Chaos. We also see medium close ups of the all the main characters cut in to one another to give an over view of who is in the film. The director of the film, Christopher Nolan, shows that the film is an action/thriller as a lot of the films he has directed does have action and thrill in including the other two Dark Knight films; Batman begins & The Dark Knight. This film may draw an audience in not by the genre, but by the actors, those being Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy; all huge blockbuster stars.

Using Todrov's stages of narrative, the equilibrium established in this film is Gotham. The first disruption we see is when Gotham Bridge collapses from an explosion and then Batman being sent to 'exile'. The disruption is recognised by a boy asking 'Do you think he is coming back' whilst drawing a Batman sign this being a convention of iconography of Batman. The attempt to repair disruption is seen when Batman returns to save Gotham. The trailer doesn't show it, but if we could predict it, the reinstatement of the equilibrium or the new equilibrium would be that Batman 'saves the day' as that is what typically happens most of the time in superhero films.

The music of the trailer begins quiet and tranquil which gradually gets tenser to create thrill and takes over the dialogue of the film until the first character who speaks is introduced. The sound continues to get tense until it becomes epic to connote the action scenes in the film.

The iconography of the film include the Batman logo, the various Batmobiles and the way Batman wears his costume in a shot standing on a tall building overlooking Gotham whilst his cape is flowing. A binary opposition is shown also through the characters, that being Good versus Evil. Batman is the 'good guy' and Bane is the villain. We know this as in the trailer Bane is asked 'What are you?' in which he replies 'I'm Gotham's reckoning' suggesting he is going to cause the chaos Gotham is going to undertake, that chaos being a lot of action. We also know he is the villain by the iconography of Bane, he has a metal mask which covers features of his face. Masks in most cases are what you would relate to villains in quite a lot of films. Almost, if not everybody knows as an audience that Batman is the hero as the franchise has been around decades. The trailer shows us that Batman and Bane are against each other as Bruce Wayne says to Bane 'why didn't you just kill me?' and we see numerous fight scenes of the two through mise-en-scene. Again this reinforces the genre of the film, action and thrill.