Action Clichés, Codes and Conventions-Will Smith

1. Audience-Aimed at a predominantly male audience.
2. Viewed mostly by male children 7-14 and by adults 18-40.
3. A typical action movie tends to have extended fight scenes, violence, frantic chases, car chases, a villain and a resourceful hero struggling against the odds.
4. Narrative: Fighting, blood, guns, hero.
5. Setting: In a war-torn environment, possibly a well known dangerous place where there are drug barons, crime and violence.
6. Camera Angles-Extreme long and medium long shots to show fight scenes and the results of battle, high angle shots to see fallen victims and extreme close ups to view anger in battle.
7. Sound-Non diegetic sound is nearly always used to set the tempo in fight scenes. Gun shots and exaggeration of bullets and bullet impact.