1. Action Adventure
The Key Points

2. Action Adventure Section A of the exam.
30 minutes to watch clip (4 times) and make notes.
45 minutes to write your responses.
Don’t bother with introductions or conclusions: these won’t gain you any marks.
Consider using note-making time to ‘plan’ your answer.

3. how to answer
Whatever you do you should always read the question and underline or circle its key words. Then make your plan for your answer. Remember to use key words from the question to keep your answers relevant.
Put a line through your notes once you have finished so examiner knows these are your notes.
Ensure that all the technical elements are covered and that a discussion of the key concept takes place, not all technical elements will be covered in the same detail.
It is important to analyse how representations are constructed. This will enable candidates to achieve higher marks for their responses.

4. Failure to discuss any of these areas will reduce your mark!
You must comment on…
Camera
Sound
Mise-en-scene
Editing
Representations
and the action adventure genre
Failure to discuss any of these areas will reduce your mark!
And how they link to…

5. Camera – shots, angle, movement and composition
• Shots: establishing shot, master shot, close-up, mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and variations of these.
• Angle: high angle, low angle, canted angle.
• Movement: pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane, steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom.
Composition: framing.

6. Sound
Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound effects, sound bridge, dialogue, voiceover.
• Soundtrack: score, incidental music, themes and stings, ambient sound.

7. Mise-en-scene
• Production design: location, studio, set design, costume and make-up.
• Lighting; colour design.
Props

8. Editing
Cutting: shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, action match, jump cut.
• Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe, long take, short take, slow motion, post- production, visual effects.

9. Representation “representations of individuals,
groups, events or places…”
• Gender
• Age
• Ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Class and Status
• Physical ability/disability
• Regional identity

10. Keywords…
All the terminology mentioned on the previous slides are keywords.
Other you could mention include…
Realism – do the different techniques used work to make the piece realistic?
Verisimilitude – the construction of a believable world.
Stereotypes – how we expect people and places to be.