Film Genres- Action

Action Films 

This Film genre is where there is one or more heroes is made to do a series of challenges that will require some frenetic chases and physical feats. Action movies tend to feature a character that is strong and resourceful struggling against some incredible odds. These may involve some life-threatening situations that can harm the main character, a villain that might be out to take over the world or out to kill the main character, and being pursued, with victory being achieved at the end of the movie after all the difficult physical efforts and violence. the sort of things that happen mostly in action films are explosions, gun play, car chases and explosions.

Some sub-genres of Action are:Action Comedy,Action horror, Die-Hard scenario, Disaster Films, Sci-Fi Action and Superhero movies 

They use a range of different camera shots in actions movies the reason they do this is because they want to show the movement throughout the film and also they want you to feel like you are in the movie when they are having the car chases. The type of camera shots that they use are:

Aerial shot:This is a camera shot filmed usually from an air plane, helicopter, blimp, balloon, kite or high building.they use aerial shots to view large landscapes to set the located in which the characters are in.if the aerial shot is of a character it can make then seem insignificant to their surroundings.

Extreme close-ups

These are also used in action films in sort of the same way that they are in horror films they are to emphasise the character or what they are doing with there hands or what they are holding such as a gun or a knife.Sometimes it could e a close up of there face and the expression they are giving. But most of the time they might have a close up of the characters hands and the actions that the because then they wanted to highlight that something bad was going to happen and also to emphasis the actions that the individual was about to do with there hands that has a important of relevance to what is about to happen and what relevance it has to the film.The most likely characters to get a close up are major characters, they are often given a close-up when they are introduced as a way of indicating their importance to you as a audience and the film, also leading

 Flashbacks 

This is a narrative device in which the action is interrupted by scenes representing a character's memory of events before the time of the action. Flashbacks are often used to show the audience the events that have already happened before the movies primart sequence of events have happen and also so it fills in the back story. A character flashback is often used to show the key events in the characters early development throughout the film. this technique id used to create suspense in the film or ti shoe develop through a character. When they are using flashbacks during the movies the edges of the pictures may be deliberately blurred, photograph blurred, photography may be jarring or choppy.

Cutaway

This is a sudden shift to another scene of action or different viewing angle or a shot is inserted between scenes to effect a transition.An example of a cutaway shot would be if the main shot was of a women walking down a dark alleyway, possible cutaways may include a shot of a cat sitting on a wall or on a nearby dumpster or even a shot of a old person or a strange man watching the women from a overhead window.