Codes and conventions

Technical and camera shots:

Action often use bright and low lighting to show the audience who is the hero and who is the Villain. Also to show what kind of place they are in.

Action films mostly have fast cuts because there is lots of fighting and movement. They do this to engage the audience and to make it less.

It also has close up to the characters face to show facial expressions their emotion when all the action and tense moments are happening.

High shot to show all the characters in one scene.

                                                                                  

Symbolic Codes

The characters often have blood on their body to show the viewer that they have been close to the action and drama.

Character often starts with clean clothes and then after that the ending, they are all dirty. Which is a symbol for their situation.

Written and Audio Codes

Action thriller usually have fast pace music and soundtrack to help emphasise the tense moments to create suspense and to match the action.

Also have music to suit the character to show the audience if he or she is an evil person of a hero.

Diegetic: inside the film - dialogue, action

Non-diegetic: outside of the film – soundtrack, voice-over or sounded added into the film during the editing process

Write a post about the target audience – age, genre, interests. 

In movies targeting audience is a big thing. For action they need action, fighting, loud sound effects and violence to be able to capture 10 to 60 years old audience.  For 10 and below they need laughter and clumsiness and less violence.

How do the reoccurring themes in the genre attract the audience and their interests?

By placing things that they want to see and what they expect like for example action genre, the audience expect to see gun fights, violence and loud sound effect.

mise-en-scene: The arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.

Close up: showing a specific detail of mise en scène. Everything else is just a blur in the background. Magnify an object of a part of a body like the face.

Side shot: camera been place to the side to make the scenes more interesting and to include other characters in the scene.

Long shot:  including setting and character whole body.

Extreme close up: magnify a specific part of the body or object.

Medium shot: Includes half of a characters body or an object.

Bird eye view:  Overhead shot to include ground and very unnatural and strange angle. To include other character and setting.

Tracking shot: when the camera follows the character where ever he goes. Make the scene interesting.

 Low angle:  A decrease in height. Usually called worm eye view. Good for showing how high object or character is.