Action Genre

 The action genre is a very entertaining and is super thrilling to watch. I personally love to watch action films, I enjoy the thrill and all adrenaline that I get in my body from it. Some of my favorites are the movies Spectre (James Bond), Olympus has Fallen and Top Gun. These movies are super entertaining to watch and I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. Action is mainly known for it to be fast paced, entertaining and a lot of fights and gunfire. This is what an audience expects from an action movie, they want the thrills and excitement to be there.

The usual target audience for action movies are people from the age of 15-35. These ages are younger and have more energy than other ages. They are known to a group with excitement and loves thrills. It is not only limited to this but many other ages can also like action. It mainly targets people who like superheroes or villains, thrills, adrenaline rushes and overall just the atmosphere of an action movie.

Action movies include many types of content which help to keep the audience interested and at the edge of their seats. Action movies have fist fights, martial arts, car chases, car explosions, running chases like from Mission Impossible, superheroes, villains. Basically it includes everything that would keep a person thoroughly entertained and at the edge of their seats. They also use many techniques but some are very common and almost necessary for an action movie. Action movies are known to move fast and have quick editing cuts, many tracking shots, sounds, lighting and color which sets the mood and many other things. These techniques help to make the action feel real even though it is scripted and choreographed. 

Overall, Action Movies are great and I am super interested in making a film opening based on it. 

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(Good for genre conventions, content, and theory)

Bordwell, D., & Thompson, K. (2020). Film art: An introduction (12th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.

(Excellent for techniques like editing, cinematography, sound, and narrative)

Neale, S. (2000). Genre and Hollywood. Routledge.

(Useful for institutional conventions and how genres are marketed)

Grant, B. K. (Ed.). (2012). Film genre reader IV. University of Texas Press.

(Academic discussion of genre expectations and audience appeal)