Codes and conventions of an action genre
Cliches
- 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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