YEAR 11: ACTION ADVENTURE ANALYSIS

PREP: Pick a 2 minute extract of your own choice and analyse (on your blog) what makes it the AA genre:

Q.1 Explain two ways  in which the narrative (the characters and events) in the extract fits the genre.  Use examples from the extract. You might consider:

• Define the genre of the extract (What kind of AA is it? How precisely do you know?)
• Can you use terms like spectacle, jeopardy and suspense, speed and motion, conflict and combat?
• What action happens in the extract? Is it typical? (Classic Adventure: Quest, exotic, danger / risk, historical; Action: emphasis on story, physical feats,think of the physical impact on audiences)
• How does it make the audience feel? What do we experience?
• Is there a hero? 
• What kind of hero is he? Is he typical? Good? How can you tell?