GCSE Exam Preparation

Action Adventure Films

 LO
• Identify Assessment Objectives
• Begin to look at what is meant by the term
‘GENRE’.
• Watch and classify some different films
from their trailers.
 Assessment Objectives
• A01: recall, select and communicate their
knowledge and understanding of media
products and the contexts in which they are
produced and consumed (20%)
• AO3: demonstrate research, planning and
presentation skills (10%)
• AO4: construct and evaluate their own
products using creative and technical skills
(10%)
 What this means?
• You need to know the topic you are examined on
really well as you will need to write about it and give
detailed examples in the exam.
• Understand the need to prepare before the exam. The
time spent preparing will pay dividends in the exam
room.
• Develop you creative and technical skills as these are
vital to success.

• BUT REMEMBER: creativity is 80% perspiration

20% inspiration. The harder you work the more
creative you are likely to be.
 Genre
• A French word meaning: kind, sort or type.

• In the film industry the word GENRE is

used when classifying different types of
film.

• Can you think of some different exaamples

of film ‘GENRES’?
 Genres
• You may have written down”
• Thriller
• Horror
• Romantic Comedy
• And of course Action Adventure

• There are many more…

• And there are many ‘sub-genres’ too.
 Action Adventure
What does it mean?
• Discuss what you think is meant by the term
Action Adventure?

• Try to express it in terms which DON’T

involve the words ‘action’ or ‘adventure’.
• Given examples of activities NOT FROM
FILMS which might be classified as
‘action’ or ‘adventure’.
 Action Adventure Subgenres
Match the films to the sub-genre

• Action Adventure – • Robin Hood, James

Swashbuckler
• Action Adventure –
Disaster
• Action Adventure –
Fantasy
• Action Adventure – Quest
• Action Adventure –
Thriller/suspense
• Action Adventure –
Historical
Bond, Pirates of the
Caribbean, Avatar,
2012, Gladiator,
Spiderman, Indiana
Jones and the Crystal
Skull, Star Trek, The
Day After Tomorrow,
The Bourne Ultimatum,
Braveheart, The
Masque of Zorro
 Watch
• http://ironmanmovie.marvel.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuolp9r
wgZU
• http://trailers.apple.com/#section=genres

• Spot the sub-genre and explain why