MY GENRE – DRAMA

Drama Films are serious stories with life situations that portray realistic characters in conflict with either themselves, others, or forces of nature. Each of the themes have various kinds of dramatic plots. Dramatic films are probably the largest film genre because they include a broad spectrum of films.

Dramatic storylines moves the audience emotionally. Dramas often give the actors a chance to stretch into a role that other genres wouldn’t allow them to. This is because drama films focus on building up characters that the audience can engage with.

The conventions of drama films:Portrays a characters journey and developmentsRepresents real characters, situations, settings and storiesDramatic sounds and exaggerated performance.

Dramatic themes often include current societal ills, and problems, concerns or injustices, such as racial prejudice; religious intolerance (such as anti-Semitism), drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness, corrupt societal institutions, violence toward women or other explosive issues of the times.

These films have successfully drawn attention to the issues by taking advantage of the topical interest of the subject. Although dramatic films have often dealt frankly and realistically with social problems, the tendency has been for Hollywood, especially during earlier times of censorship, to exonerate society and institutions and to blame problems on an individual, who more often than not, would be punished for his/her transgressions.

Dramas can be combines with other genres such as comedy, tragedy, horror etc. it doe not have to be complete drama.

TYPES OF DRAMA MOVIES.

DRAMA MOVIES THAT BREAK CONVENTIONS

Some movies try to break the normal and stereotypical convention of a movie. For example when watching most movies the audience can predict what's going to happen so some movies change it a it so that the audience will get confused. An example of this is ‘A serious man’.

Titanic is another movie that breaks all the conventions as it does not end happy but all the protagonist die and it is a sad story.

TYPICAL SETTING

Flats, council estates, ghettos, schools, streets of neighborhoods, work placeThese are the typical setting where drama films are filmed.

TYPICAL ACTORS Noel Clark , Kevin Spacey, Gabe Nevins, Tom Hanks, Alex Frost, Sean Penn, Ellen Burstyn Kate Winslet, Red Madrell. All these actors are known for acting in drama films