Genre Research: Action

We decided to research the genre of action. There are many common camera angles found in action movies. These include:

• Eye level

• High angles

• Low angles

There are also commonly found camera movements in this genre that include:

• Tracking shots

• Pan 

• Tilt

 Finally, some of the shots that are frequently used include:

• Close-ups 

• Extreme close-ups

• Medium shots

• Two-shots

• Ariel shots

• Point-of-view shots

Some of the common mis-en-scene elements found in action movies include:

• Tight colorful costumes

• Bright lighting

• Acting (stunts)

• Makeup (clown like makeup)

• Props (staffs, nun chucks, ID badges, hammers)

• Outdoor sets (roads, offices)

Some of the frequently used editing techniques in action films include:

• Cutaways

• Eye-line matches

• Jump cuts

• Cross cutting

Finally, some of the commonly used sound elements used in action films include:

• Dialogues

• Voiceovers

• Incidental music

• Ambient sound

• Diegetic sound

• Non-diegetic sound

Examples of comedy films include:

• My Spy (2020) by Peter Segal

• Red Notice (2021) by Rawson Marshall Thurber

• Shang-Chi and the Legends of Ten Rings (2021) by Destin Daniel Cretton

• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) by Jon Watts

Some elements of the genre that we like and would use in our film include establishing shots, eye level angles, medium shots, long shots, acting, set, makeup, cross cutting, eye-line matches, diegetic sounds, voiceovers, dialogues, and incidental music. 
However, some of the elements of the genre that we do not like and would not use in our film include high and low angles, zooms, extreme-close-ups, jump cuts, and tight colorful costumes. 
Some of these elements, such as high angles, we feel would not fit the overall mood we are trying to create for our film. Also, things like tight colorful costumes or clown like makeup wouldn't fit our film because it is trying to reflect someone's daily life where they look like an average people. Also, some things we don't have the resources for. An example of this would be ariel shots. My group doesn't own something like a drone with a camera built-in, which is what it would take to be able to film a shot like this. Therefore, we will refrain from elements like those.