Codes and conventions of an action genre
- 12/15 certificate:
maximising youth audiences
- Often hybridised with Sci
Fi/Adventure/Romance
- Major Hollywood studio
produced and distributed
- High production values
including CGI
- Fast paced editing
- Predictable chain of events
– cause and effect
- Dramatic non-diegetic sound
Cliches
- More narrative action codes
- enigma codes - puzzles
- Clear binary oppositions –
good versus evil
- Star Marketing: Audience
identification/expectations
(Cruise/Pitt/Willis/Thurman/Jolie/Stallone/Craig/ SchwarzeneggeDi
Caprio
- Romantic sub-plot, humorous
dialogue
- Relationships with new
technology (youth audiences)
- Use of close up
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