Creating Our Genre- "The Awesomest Action Movie EVER!"

Our task was to use the typical conventions of the action genre and employ them in our short sequence. From the very beginning of this task we were thinking about the conventions, whether it was the plot, camera angles, music or editing etc... Personally the challenge for me, was using editing as a convention when we were stringing together our sequence either in real time or shrinking time.

Plot

• Nationality of enemy as Russian (connected to stereotypical use of Russian villains in action movies)
• Actual use of the "goodies" side and "baddies" side which is the back bone of almost all action movies
• Use of chase (typical convention is a car chase, however this was obviously unachievable)

Music

• Use of tension building music
• Powerful, guitar-heavy music with a clear and quick tempo- usually main theme for action movie (e.g. our main theme was taken from the action movie "Wanted") 

Mise-En-Scene

• Use of dark business colours
• Clothes that depict the characters to "mean business" (although I think we could've depicted this better through use of suits as costume, however this was not our priority and due to our confusing schedule of filming and focusing on other conventions) 
• Use of work/office environment/usually areas of high profile - large urban areas 
• Use of typical action props- Gun 

Camera + Lighting

• High and low angles used to depict power + status 
• Shaky camera usage
• Use of shadow during shot of the head "baddie" (this is a cliché often used where only a part of the leader of the "baddies" is shown- shadow used to hide the rest of his appearance) 

Editing

• Fairly quick editing pace used
• Special effects used to depict flashback
• Added emphasised gun shot effect