Codes and conventions of action films:
 
            More narrative action codes - enigma codes - puzzles.

 
Clear binary oppositions – good versus evil . hero v villain

Star Marketing: Audience identification/expectations (Cruise/Pitt/Willis/Thurman/Jolie/Stallone/Craig/
 
SchwarzeneggeDi Caprio…).
 
Romantic sub-plot, humorous dialogue.

Relationships with new technology (youth audiences)
 
Use of close up - of villains face, which is often masked. establishing the shot of the setting, where the action is going to take place.
 
character appear strong builded.
 
fast paced editing - sound digetic of gun shots and explosions. dialogue has a foreign accent. Non-diegetic sound -tense music to match the action.
 
you would get a villain and a hero in an action film.
 
Props would consist of guns cars ect.
 
different camera shots will be used mainly opening with a birds eye view of the city/area.
 
the certificate rating for action films would be 12+ as this is the audienced it is aimed at.
 
shots can determine what the setting in a situation.

setting usually takes place in the city where the public may get hurt.

typical cliche's in the action genre are - A psycho with an eye patch is good, especially if he's a one-eyed giant with a machete. An action film without rappelling is like a horror movie without disembowelment: when in doubt, rappel. They never get ti druve tge Humvee or trigger the portable,easily concealed nuclear weapon. The bad guys never attack in tandem in martial arts films; they always allow the hero to pick them off one by one. This is also true of samurai films