Reserach: Action Genre

  I'm researching genres to see if it's possible to spin our pitch in a creative way. The genre I am researching at the moment is the action genre.

The action movies I researched tend to have these angles and movements of the camera:

  • High and Low angle
  • Birds Eye Views
  • Tracking Shots
  • Side Views
  • Establishing Shots
Common Mis-En-Scene used in action films:
  • Occasional comedy
  • Large and intricate movie sets (they get destroyed)
  • Abundance of creative prop usage to create fake glass and prop weapons
  • Intense usage of costumes to differentiate background characters from main characters
  • Use of lighting to create tense feelings in audience (flashing lights, dim lights)
Common Editing used in action films:
  • Jump Cuts
  • Cuts
  • Fade Aways
  • Cross Cuts
  • Dissolve
  • Inserts
Common Sounds used in action films:
  • Dialogue
  • Intense music leaving audience on edge of their seats
  • Sound Bridges
  • Ambient Sounds to immerse audience
Films I watched in this genre:
  • Bullet Train
  • The Gray Man
  • Ghosted
  • The John Wick Series
Elements of the Genre that I enjoy:
  • There's a lot of freedom in the action genre and there's loads of possibility to use different film aspects to drastically change the "action" in your film
  • Action movies are extremely entertaining and can have audiences glued to the screen if done correctly
  • Action movies are very thrilling and suspenseful and never have dull moments
  • Action movies an have an emphasis on the actors allowing more improvisation and creativity

Elements of Genre that I dislike:

  • Action movies can become repetitive and boring if done poorly
  • Action movies rely on expensive budgets to create appealing scenes and eye catching visuals which makes them very difficult to recreate
  • Action movies can become very cliche and cringy if done poorly

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Production Blog: Editing

Image
   Hey bloggers and welcome back to the continuation of my opening sequence. Today I will be tinkering throughout my sequence attempting to make it as improved as possible. Very similarly to what I did with my last blog. Considering how much I tweaked during the film review and the critique I used. It was relatively hard for me to see what was still wrong with the opening sequence. This meant I had to thoroughly watch and rewatch our current sequence in order to find thing I could improve upon. This took me quite a bit of minutes before finding pieces of the opening sequence that were not up to standard. The first thing I changed was the positioning of the titles as I wasn't very fond of where they previously were. At times the titles blocked out some important backgrounds or scenes due to their position and size. After noticing this I shifted almost all of the titles so that they would occupy different corners in places without importance to the sequence. I made sure however,...
Read more

Our Pitch

Image
  These are our pitches we came up with for our opening sequence  Pitch A: A group of students plan out an innocent camping trip and begin to find out that there is something out there, something watching them the entire time. Pitch B: A family hires a personal chef, the chef sneakily steals items from their house covering his tracks no matter the cost. Pitch A seemed a little cliche to us at first but it was a very feasible idea that could still be loads of fun and really well produced. We found that it would be simpler to use effective music in a thriller as there are loads more films and media work using suspenseful music. We also had a slight plan as to where we would film the sequence, Oleta State Park. We also had the camping equipment necessary for the props and costumes allowing our budgets to be put towards other things. I also enjoy being out in the woods and it would bring the mood up around the production team. Pitch B on the other hand I found to be pretty unique ...
Read more