Genres / Neale
Steve Neale says...
'Genre is instances of repetition and difference'
Conventions of the action genre are a fast-moving plot, usually containing scenes of violence, it is a film genre in which one or more heroes are put into a series of challenges that typically include physical threats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases
Characters/villain/hero:
Main protagonist, always the hero controls the action. The villain, often a rich millionaire or ex- military, usually has an accent that sounds menacing(E.g. Silva in Skyfall), sometime hides their identify and usually have a female companion. Costumes:
Actors wear quiet expensive clothing, battle clothing.
Story-line:
Hero fighting against the evil trying to stop them .
Editing:
There is quiet a lot of editing involved including adding in sound affects, adding CGI for explosions etc. Action movies have a variety of clips including long clips without and vise verser.
Sound affects/ music:
High drum beat/ intense music, explosions, gun shots, running,screaming, car engines.
Use of colour/ Lighting:
Lighting is mostly scene lighting such as daylight, searchlights, and street lamps. Often dark colours like brown and black are worn to make the characters more suspicious but the main protagonist and heroes are often wearing white to make them stand out from the others.
Setting:
These movies usually take place in cities, built up urban areas. specific locations can be something like skyscrapers to underground tunnels, flats, warehouses, roads, police stations, cars,casinos, the sky and banks.
Camera shots:
There tends to be very fast paced shots in actions films. including close ups to show emotion. Establishing shots are important to show where the action is taking place, usually these shots are done from helicopters. Tracking shots are also very common when there are chase scenes to capture it and to make you feel apart of it.
Themes:
Good vs bad, family issues, revenge, death, car chases, gun fights.
If I put Elliot's character in another genre (Romance), this is what would happen...
Teaser
A gun to Angela's head
Elliot at a computer
Act 1 - Day in the Life
He works at Allsafe - he is an IT engineer
He is a hacker - hacks people he knows
In love with Angela (who's in a relationship with Ollie) but don't know it
Act 2 - The Premise
Ollie and Angela get into a big fight
Ollie kicks her out of the apartment
Angela go and stays at Elliot's apartment
reminisces the past the whole night
Act 3 - The Thing His is Missing
Realizes that he wants her but can't have her
She goes missing
Ollie gets taken to prison (police think that Ollie has something to do with her going missing)
Act 4 - Fun and Games
Angela get taken away from him because someone wants him to hack a bank and he refuses but they threaten to kill her
He ends up having to hack the bank
Also secretly contacts the police
Police comes
End scene is the red and blue flashing light on a wall with the shadow of the gun to elliots head
'Genre is instances of repetition and difference'
Conventions of the action genre are a fast-moving plot, usually containing scenes of violence, it is a film genre in which one or more heroes are put into a series of challenges that typically include physical threats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases
Characters/villain/hero:
Main protagonist, always the hero controls the action. The villain, often a rich millionaire or ex- military, usually has an accent that sounds menacing(E.g. Silva in Skyfall), sometime hides their identify and usually have a female companion. Costumes:
Actors wear quiet expensive clothing, battle clothing.
Story-line:
Hero fighting against the evil trying to stop them .
Editing:
There is quiet a lot of editing involved including adding in sound affects, adding CGI for explosions etc. Action movies have a variety of clips including long clips without and vise verser.
Sound affects/ music:
High drum beat/ intense music, explosions, gun shots, running,screaming, car engines.
Use of colour/ Lighting:
Lighting is mostly scene lighting such as daylight, searchlights, and street lamps. Often dark colours like brown and black are worn to make the characters more suspicious but the main protagonist and heroes are often wearing white to make them stand out from the others.
Setting:
These movies usually take place in cities, built up urban areas. specific locations can be something like skyscrapers to underground tunnels, flats, warehouses, roads, police stations, cars,casinos, the sky and banks.
Camera shots:
There tends to be very fast paced shots in actions films. including close ups to show emotion. Establishing shots are important to show where the action is taking place, usually these shots are done from helicopters. Tracking shots are also very common when there are chase scenes to capture it and to make you feel apart of it.
Themes:
Good vs bad, family issues, revenge, death, car chases, gun fights.
If I put Elliot's character in another genre (Romance), this is what would happen...
Teaser
A gun to Angela's head
Elliot at a computer
Act 1 - Day in the Life
He works at Allsafe - he is an IT engineer
He is a hacker - hacks people he knows
In love with Angela (who's in a relationship with Ollie) but don't know it
Act 2 - The Premise
Ollie and Angela get into a big fight
Ollie kicks her out of the apartment
Angela go and stays at Elliot's apartment
reminisces the past the whole night
Act 3 - The Thing His is Missing
Realizes that he wants her but can't have her
She goes missing
Ollie gets taken to prison (police think that Ollie has something to do with her going missing)
Act 4 - Fun and Games
Angela get taken away from him because someone wants him to hack a bank and he refuses but they threaten to kill her
He ends up having to hack the bank
Also secretly contacts the police
Police comes
End scene is the red and blue flashing light on a wall with the shadow of the gun to elliots head
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