Action Adventure Films is the set topic for the exam on Monday 13 June 2011 (pm) 1 hour and 30 mins
The 2011 brief should be issued to students on or shortly after Monday 16 May 2011. The brief will provide students with a contextualised scenario. The examination will require students to respond to tasks in role.
AQA suggests there are different types of action adventure films and offers this list:
Action Adventure – Swashbuckler
The Mask of Zorro; The Three Musketeers; Pirates of the Caribbean
Action Adventure – Disaster
The Poseidon Adventure; The Towering Inferno; Airport; The Day After Tomorrow
Action Adventure – Fantasy
Star Wars; Lord of the Rings; Superman; Avatar
Action Adventure – Quest
Raiders of the Lost Ark; Romancing the Stone; King Solomon’s Mines
Action Adventure – Thriller/Suspense
The Fugitive; The Thirty Nine Steps; Die Hard; Cliffhanger; the Bond franchise
Action Adventure – Historical
Big adventures set against backdrop of history, legend and folklore: Braveheart; Gladiator; Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
The above is neither a prescriptive or restrictive list and centres are free to make their own selections.
AQA is clear that the key concepts of genre, institution, audience and representation are at the heart of how the students should study the action adventure film...
