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Action Genre

What attracts me to this genre

• I find the Genre Action very thrilling and full of suspense, throughout any action film are the codes and conventions of fast cars, guns, crime, drugs and female representation who are sexually objectified. This is what attracts me to this genre. I enjoy the suspense and the whole atmosphere of not knowing what is going to happen next.

• As we sit in a movie theatre for an action film, our eyes are dazzled and mesmerized by the explosions, car chases, fist fights, and weapons of destruction that are shown in the cinema screen.

Dredd 2013

Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC is a British cinematographer notable for his work in digital cinematography was the cinematographer for Dredd 2012 a massive profitable, success film, other film that he has worked on are films such as 172 hours, Rush, Slumdog Millionaire, Trance and 28 days later. The Production of Dredd 2012 took place in south Africa because I as most Practicle and cost effective for shooing the starting base o Mega City one. The location shows parts of of Johannesburg and Cape Town. The Writer Alex Garland had regualer contact with the Judge Dreadd creator John Wagner. They used VFX for the blood and gore when people are being shot, so for reference we fired bullets at blood bags and prosthetic skin and noticed the stringy nature of the blood and the shock wave impact of the bullet on skin. We shot as much of it as possible in layers so we could control the action and in VFX we added particulates in the air to add depth to the stereo. The slo-mo 'look' was developed over a period of time and consisted of separating out the colours and objects in the scene and taking them in different directions with hue and saturation. Add to that some sparkles in the highlights and some heightened stereo and we had our drug look. The Film used a lot of VFX, The total VFX used was close to 300 and had a total shot count of 650 shots

Need for speedThe Need For Speed film is very action based staring Aaron Paul who stars in the popular TV series breaking bad.The director of need for speed is Scott Waugh who has directed films such as 2002 Spiderman and Act of Valor (2012).The story is about cross-country race against time-one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. In a last attempt to save his struggling garage, blue-collar mechanic Tobey Marshall-who with his team skilfully builds and races muscle cars.The story is a plot on revenge with Aaron pauls best friend dies due to the bad guy the antagonist in the film Dino Brewster who clips his back bumper and makes little Pete crash and die. However the antagonist doesn’t go back to look at him and make sure he is okay leaving him to die. There for the themes in this film are revenge friendship and love.

Batman

The batman film franchise are very popular all over the world batman started out as a television series back in January 12, 1966. the director of that latest batman film is

Intertextuality• Dredd has Intertextuality with other films and games such as ROBOCOP , w9th the

whole I am the law, and action. Both films show Intertextuality with each other for example they both have the Intertextuality of the clothing as shown in the images below.

• The Intertextuality in a film makes you to want to watch the film more for example the if a previous film is good and has a good rating from the IMDB , and a new film that is similar to it then this encourages you to watch the film.

Intertextuality

Star Theory• Many people go to watch a film because of its actors and story

line. If I was a huge fan from someone such as Daniel Craig then I would want to go and see his latest movie that he is filmed in,

• If the star is there main actor then I would want to go and see it and if the actor plays his last even scene then I would want to go and see it. For example one of my favourite actors is Seth Rogan and he has been in films such as pineapple express and in June 2014 he is playing the lead actor of a film called Bad Neighbours.

Media literacy

• When a film is coming out and about to be released they advertise there film or there product on social networking such as Facebook twitter and other social networking sites. They advertise there film by adding there film, trailer in to web banners on other websites also another way that we hear about films is on YouTube every day people watch hundreds of thousands of videos on YouTube so this is the perfect opportunity to get people to see the trailer.

Media literacy This is an example of Media Literacy used as you can see I am watching a video on YouTube when before the advert starts it comes up with a trailer for A million ways to die in the west a comedy film featuring Seth MacFarlane and Liam nelson.As you can see I have to option to press skip ad

Reception Theory• Reception Theory is where how we react to a film

based upon our age, gender, ethnicity, social class. For example a teenage male who loves action films and is from a normal social class would love to watch Godzilla a action disaster hi fi film where a 10 year old female who has a different ethnicity and from a different social class would not like to see the film Godzilla and would want to watch something more appropriate for her age.