Freezeframe

Aran, Nadib, and Mo in a freezeframe of someone being pick pocketed. This sort of relates to our ideas for our opening two minutes, the theme of crime and theft.

The Expendables opening two minutes

The opening few seconds from the clip above are plains flying over, tying in with the cliches that nobody drives a car in a action movie, as well as setting the scene of some kind of war. This is shown again 30 seconds later as there are a flood of chopper style motorbikes being ridden, again tying in with the cliche that nobody drives a car in an action film, and giving a gang related idea to the audience, because stereo typically, it's muscular men that ride motorbikes, to add, motorbikes may also give an idea of a getaway vehicle.
In a later scene you see an ocean at night with a large ship on the horizon, which give an idea to the audience an idea of a warship, which is using the cliche that the film will consist of a small group of army related people trying to complete a mission. In the last scene of the first two minutes, you hear people talking in a foreign language, this is using cliche that the villains are usually foreign and heavily accented, unclear, and untrustworthy.