ACTION ADVENTURE GENRE

Remember the questions you'll get:

• Explain two ways in which the events in the trailer fit the action adventure genre (10 marks)
• Explain how each of the following is used to create effects: the soundtrack, camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene (20 marks)
• Discuss the ways in which people are represented. Make reference to stereotypes (20 marks)

Activity 1 Action Adventure films often ‘cross over’ other film genres, making Action Adventure a hybrid genre. You need to know this for Q.1 in order to draw attention to AA conventions. Fill in your quiz sheet matching genre to 14 titles.

Activity 2  Watch screening of Austin Powers in Goldmember the Austin Powers spoof on YouTube here.

On your handout entitled ‘Genre narrative conventions on character and events’, circle genre conventions and give an example of three of them.

Activity 3 Watch screening of Gladiator and answer questions on ‘What do the camerawork and mise-en-scène tell us about the construction of ‘heroes’ in Gladiator ?

Activity 4 Watch screening of the echo game and Arundhathi drum dance from House of Flying Daggers here on YouTube. and consider aspects of performance, spectacle, wire work and CGI.

Prep sheet entitled ‘Soundtrack and narrative: how do sound effects, dialogue and music tell the story in Gladiator ?’  

TV SCHEDULING

Today we learn about the scheduling issues for our television comedy case studies:

Look at my PREZI here

PREP: Research E4 and the scheduling of The Inbetweeners

TV Scheduling of QI and The IT Crowd

THE INBETWEENERS

For your summer exam, we can pair QI with The Inbetweeners as case studies of television comedy. For prep, write a brief character study of the four main characters, using examples from the episodes on The Isle Of Wight Field Trip and The Camping Trip.
PREP: Character studies of the four main characters with examples of what entertains us about them, taken from any named episode(s).

YOUR PRODUCTION LOG AND APPENDIX

Today we ensure that each Production Log is followed by an Appendix, as outlined below:

YOUR EVALUATION

Today you work on your evaluation in class, ensuring that you complete every PowerPoint 
slide.

JOHN CARTER

Today we watch the trailer for the Action Adventure sci-fi hybrid John Carter. We use the exam question framework to analyse it verbally. In class on Tuesday 6 March, you will complete the written answers to the three questions and have the work in a form ready to hand in for Thursday's lesson.
Watch the trailer here.

• Explain two ways in which the events in the trailer fit the action adventure genre (10 marks)
• Explain how each of the following is used to create effects: the soundtrack, camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene (20 marks)
• Discuss the ways in which people are represented. Make reference to stereotypes (20 marks)