Conventional Element |
How is it used in Action/Adventure films? |
Protagonist |
A Protagonist is used to separate the good and bad (Protagonist & Antagonist) mostly the Protagonist saves a damsel in distress, or the world from ending. Protagonist is a hero or a savior that is seen to be the good character mostly in Action/Adventure movies he/she may wear specific clothing refereeing to Mise-en-Scene, however it varies from movie to movie for example: Iron man has an Iron suit with futuristic technology, this also attracts teenagers as well as women (target audience). Mostly in an Action/Adventure movie they are equipped with futuristic technology or super human strength, there may be a use of Propaganda as it makes the audience imagine them having their powers. Protagonist is represented as the tough, rich and tall character sometimes the funny one for example 'Jack Sparrow' in 'Pirates of the Caribbean', protagonist's are usually men as they are a conventional to Action/Adventure movies. |
Antagonist |
A Antagonist is also used to separate the good and the bad (Protagonist & Antagonist) in most Action/Adventure movies the Antagonist captures the damsel in distress or something valuable to the Protagonist, that he will do anything to get it back, for example: Iron man 3 Pepper is kidnapped and Tony stark has to save her. Antagonist's usually wear dark clothing as dark colour symbolizes evil for example: Pirates of the Caribbean would have Pirate clothing: dark black eye patch, ripped clothing, broken teeth, this a code and convention of a Antagonist. Antagonists are represented as rich masterminds as they try to trap the Protagonist by blackmailing them through his/her weakness. Antagonist's are usually a male gender as they are seen as strong and experienced characters which fits in the role of a Antagonist. |
Other characters |
Other characters usually have normal clothing to make it realistic and fit in with the environment.Other characters mostly are visible in crowd's as well as in superhero movies they are vulnerable to many problems for example: natural disaster, fighting. |
Plot |
The plot in an Action/Adventure movie would be very complex as they would want to make a twist and full of action. |
Locations |
Locations are very important as it decides where it is and the audience can associate it to may thing, this makes it conventional to Action/Adventure movies. Location's are usually presented though a Birds Eye-View or Establishing Shot. The Most common location is New York, it's easily told as they show the statue of liberty, this is a key part of Locations as they usually showing landmarks or famous places that the audience are filmier to so can they can tell where it is filmed, furthermore this can also encourage the audience to go there. |
Soundtrack |
Sound is also a important feature of movies as it is very boring watching a movie without sound, different types of sounds can be associated to different things in a Action/Adventure movie the audience expect: crashes, gun firing making it a code and convention. Sound can be represented in many ways for example to create tension or build up tension this is usually used when something is going to happen, they increase the sound/beat, for example in Iron man during the fight of Iron man and the Iron monger the beats increased faster, this is synced in with the action as well. |
Camera |
Camera technique's are also important as they present the movie as well as different techniques represent different things for example a high angle is mostly used in Action/Adventure movies to show the antagonist and protagonist as well as showing the bound between them in this case for example someone might be vulnerable to the antagonist. |
Mise-en-Scene |
Mise-en-Scene is ranged from the most smallest detail to the largest objects this important as it can suggest many things as well as Mise-en-Scene builds everything up to make a perfect scene. Mise-en-Scene include: Make up, costumes, Blocking, Characters, Location, Lighting, Props, Casting & Preforming... |
Editing |
Editing brings the action to real-life on the other hand it can be over done making it look fake as well as show that editing has been done for example: Super human powers (Super man). |
Other?
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Monday, 14 October 2013
How is it used in Action/Adventure films?
Monday, 7 October 2013
Analysis of Iron man
Analysis of Iron man:
In this scene there are many elements that support the fact that it's a Action/Adventure movie. Firstly, the use of futuristic technology is a important convention an Action/Adventure genre, furthermore its also conventional to a Sc-Fi genre. Secondly, the most straight forward way we can tell is the fight between 'Iron man' and 'Iron Monger' whom were the antagonist and protagonist of the movie 'Iron man', it was very simple in discovering the hero and villain as the 'Iron Monger' was a copyright of the 'Iron man' we can separate both from each other as the 'Iron Monger' had dark, grey and heavy-armored weapons which is a connotation to death, evil, and mystery, on the other hand 'Iron man' having yellow and red colors which are antonyms to each other, yellow is associated to happiness and energy, whilst red is associated danger, blood and war however both colors are associated to energy linking back to the 'Iron man' suit that generates infinite sustainable energy.
There were many shot techniques used in this scene as it is most effective during battles or fights, the audience usually concentrate on the action rather than how it's presented through the camera techniques. The most common shot used in this scene is a long shot, this was first used at the start of the video where Tony Stark's personal assistant is trying to find the antagonist and stop him linking back to a bit of romance between both of them,furthermore there was a fatal use of a shallow focus, this is used as it shows her trying her best to find him as well as her being alone at that point linking her to be venerable to the massive, destructive and frightening 'Iron monger'. After Pepper sees the 'Iron monger' there is a sudden change to a over the shoulder shot showing the bright white eyes of the Iron monger at a high angle linking back to Pepper being vulnerable to him. Once again there was an immediate change to a P.O.V. (Point Of View) shot, this was from the Iron mongers point of view, we could see Pepper running away from the screen as well as the computer trying to identify who she is, this can be told as there is a red circle on her targeting her face, red is a connotation to war and death meaning he is trying to successfully attack her.
The sound was fully synchronous with the action, for example when Iron man blasts from the sky and hits the massive Iron monger and takes him to the streets, the audience expected car crashes as well as cars being thrown linking back to the genre being Action/Adventure, as this was happening there was the constant sound of metal as well as loud car horns.
There was a lot of editing in this scene but was very fate to the audience however we can interpret that it was impossible to carry a car further more Iron man blasting from the air and hitting the Iron monger. There was also green screen used for the cars and road.
There was a lot of editing in this scene but was very fate to the audience however we can interpret that it was impossible to carry a car further more Iron man blasting from the air and hitting the Iron monger. There was also green screen used for the cars and road.
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