Action Thriller Conventions

As we have decided on using action as the main genre for our opening title sequence, I did secondary research into the conventions of an action movie. Here is an extract from the article about action films from the encyclopedia website Wikipedia:

Action movies are a film genre where action sequences, such as explosions, fights, shootouts, stunts, car chases or explosions either take precedence over or, in finer examples of the genre, are used as a form of exposition and character development. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero. While action has long been an element of films, the "Action film" as a genre of its own began to develop in the 1970s. The genre is closely linked with the thriller and adventure film genres.

This effectively puts into writing the conventions of an action film we conciously or subconsiously expect to see as an audience. We will take one or two of these conventions, and use them in our own opening title sequence to demonstrate the genre of the sequence. Pyrotechnics may be both dangerous and expensive to set up on set, which restricts us from using it; however, fights, shootouts, and stunts can easily be reconstructed, and could be used with our opening title sequence.