History into the Genre - 'Drama':
Dramas normally relate to real life situations with realistic characters, settings and stories. It an also portray the character's journey, which can also move the audience emotionally.
The conventions of drama films include:
- Heart of drama is conflict and the conflicts include inner/outer realistic struggles depicting difficulty and pain.
- They also have a specific structure with climaxes and anti-climaxes to keep the audience emotionally attached and the tension on-going.
The genre drama is split into separate categories:
Biography
Dramedy
Historical
Melodrama
Period Piece
Political
Romance
Tragedy
Some sub-genres in drama break the specific conventions of
it. For example the scene in Titanic when Jack dies, breaks the conventions of the genre.
The type of Drama I will be creating is a Tragedy. 'A Tragedy is a genre wherein the downfall of the character is caused by a flaw within a character. The genre is really about the self-destructive behaviour of the character. The flaws of the character come to a head and can ultimately result in death or other form of degradation.' - This relates to our film as one of our characters are going to end up dying.
But we are also going to use the codes of emotional peaks
and can relate to the protagonist – they’re going through some kind of
emotional journey.
We decided to look into what the three most popular films were in the genre 'drama' with this research, we found out that the 'most popular drama feature films' were:
- The Revenant (2015)
- The Hateful Eight (2015)
- Spotlight (2015)
By looking at the three most popular drama films then gives us an idea as to what type of audience are interested in drama films; what they like to see in them (which includes the film opening).
Lilly.
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