The conventions associated with action comedy films are:
-Fights
-Killings: death of loved ones
-Strong motive (preventing massive destruction)
-Hi tech equipment
-Located in a big modern city
-Weapons
-Relationships
-One smart character and one slower (funnier) character
-Awkward comedy moments
-Connection with characters
I researched these typical codes and conventions of action comedies by watching a range of film in this genre.
These films included Limitless, Knight and Day, Kickass and Johnny English. These films all had themes and conventions in common so I compiled a list of different the conventions that were present in order to incorporate them into my film opening and storyline to create a familiar and recognisable genre.
This I created a spider diagram in order to collate my finding and then compared this to singular action and separate comedy films to film conventions specific to the combined genre. The spider diagram helped to display my thought process and single out specific conventions so that they could be condensed and written into a short list which can be worked into my film opening. This list will almost be a checklist for me when I have mapping out the timeline and writing the script so that it is a clear action/comedy genre.