Action
Genre Conventions
Content
-Fast paced
-Various stunts
-High stakes
-Intense setting/backgrounds
-Often good vs bad
Production Techniques
-Fast paced shots
-Rapid change between shots
-Very loud
-High contrast lighting
-Special effects and CGI used
Institutional Conventions
-Often need big budgets
-Often casts well-known actors
-Trailers, merchandise, and other forms of marketing used because action movies often bring in a lot of money
Film Samples
The Hunger Games embodies action through the use of having intense backgrounds, a hero, a villain, high stakes (The Hunger Games), flashy scenes, various fights to the death, and a climax when they finally win.
