1. Aims:
To understand and gain
knowledge of Action
Adventure subgenres and
hybrids

2. ACTION ADVENTURE
• Codes and conventions can help an audience
to recognise a particular genre. Genre
conventions include: BUT ALSO…
• Narrative STYLE
the use of Media
• Iconography Language
• Characters and
THEMES
• Settings this can be the
messages/ideology of
the film

3. ACTION ADVENTURE
• How do we know this is
an action-adventure film?
• Consider NICS and explain
how the poster and the
trailer signal to the
audience that this is an
action adventure film
• Click the poster to view
the trailer

4. HYBRIDS
• What is a hybrid? • Why are hybrids used?
• A hybrid is where two or more • To prevent films from becoming
genres are mixed together. predictable and audiences from
becoming bored.
ROMCOM

5. SUBGENRES
• A sub category of a genre
• For example different types of the thriller
genre include: suspense thriller, psychological
thriller, aviation thriller, voyeuristic thriller.
• What different types of action-adventure films
are there?

6. SUBGENRES
THRILLER/
HISTORICAL SWASHBUCKLER QUEST FANTASY
SUSPENSE
DISASTER SUPERHERO WAR COMIC/ BUDDY

7. SUBGENRES
POLICE
SPY

8. SUBGENRES
• Watch the following action-adventure film trailers. (click the
pictures)
• What subgenre(s) do they belong to?
• How do you know this? (Think about NICS)
• Create a chart like the one on slide 9 and write down your answers

9. SUBGENRES
Film Subgenre How do I know this?
Spider-Man
King Arthur
Pirates of the Caribbean
James Bond
Die Hard
Rush Hour