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Drama

What is Drama?

Drama

A type of genre that touches the audience’s emotions.

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Sub-Genres: Romantic dramaTragedyMusical DramaEtc.

It is fictional.

How did ‘Drama’ changed over time?

New types of conventions.

• Crime• Musical• Adventure

Other genres became combined

The audience and technology has changed over time which would make the genre of drama change over time

2012

• Director: Roland Emmerich

• Distributing Company: Columbia Pictures

• Released date: – 13-Nov-09 (UK)

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Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Plot of 2012

• It is when a geologist and his team discovered that the earth’s core is heating up. The geologist warns the U.S. President that the crust of the Earth is unstable and without preparations the whole world is doomed. Meanwhile, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and other disasters wreak around the world.

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InaHow does it meet the conventions?

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Meeting the Conventions

Disasters all around the world are happening

Travels across the globe to survive

Twilight

• Director: Catherine Hardwicke

• Distributing Company: Summit Entertainment

• Release Date: 19th December 2008 (UK)

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Plot of Twilight

• Isabella Swan from Arizona moves to Forks to live with her father Charlie, after her mum remarries. She meets a mysterious guy called Edward Cullen, which is not a normal boy. In no time they are in a relationship, but he is no like other boys as he can run fast, can stop a moving car with his bare hands, and hasn’t aged since 1918.

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conventions?Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Meeting extra-ordinary people.Eg: vampires and werewolves

Moved from Forks back to Arizona running away from a tracker vampire. Involving fights

This have Edward climbing on tall tree with Bella.

Romeo and Juliet (1996)

• Director: Baz Luhrmann

• Distributing Company: 20th Century Fox

• Release Date: 28th March 1997 (UK)

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Plot

• A Capulet’s daughter and Montague’s son meets and fell in love with each other causing the two families fight with each other. The two lovers soon get married as Father Lawrence agrees to marry them. But then, Juliet asked the Priest for help so she wouldn’t marry Paris. The Priest then proposes to do a fake death and gave Juliet a potion that will wake her up after 24 hours. Romeo thought that Juliet is really dead and buys a poison and drinks it where Juliet lies. Juliet then wakes up finding Romeo dead, she took his handgun and shoots herself in the head.

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Crime involves gun crimes

Two lovers

There is death scene of Juliet

Titanic (1997)

• Director: James Cameron

• Distributing Company: – Paramount Pictures

(USA)

– 20th Century Fox (International)

• Release Date: 23rd January 1998 (UK)

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Plot

• A lover from different social backgrounds meets in a voyage of RMS Titanic’s first and last voyage.

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Ina How does it meet the Conventions?

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

The ship is sinking killing lots of people.

Seven Pounds

• Director: Gabriele Muccino

• Distributing Company: Columbia Pictures

• Released date: 16th January 2009

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Plot

• An aerospace engineer (Ben Thomas) who transforms the lives of 7 people that he doesn’t know. However, he ends up falling in love with one of these people, who ends up transforming him.

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How did it meet the convention?Anicia

Genre: Drama

It has romance with the man falling in love.

Death as 7 people died including his wife.

Emotional Scenes in movie.

Bride and Prejudice

• Director: Gurinder Chadha

• Distributed Company: – Miramax Films (USA)– Pathé Distribution (UK)

• Released Date: 8th October 2004

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Plot

• A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though circumstance and boorish opinions threaten to get in the way of romance.

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How did it meet the convention?Anicia

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical

They sing and dance throughout the movie.

Has Conflicts

Love and Relationships

Has problems and concerns

Why did I get Married?

• Director: Tyler Perry

• Distributing Company: Lionsgate

• Released Date:12th October 2007

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Plot

• Dr. Patricia Agnew, a psychologist, has written a best seller about marriage: hers and those of three other couples who together take a week's vacation each year to ask themselves, "Why did I get married?" It's time for one of those weeks, and all four relationships are strained: Patricia and her husband Gavin have the shadow of grief between them; Terry believes that Diane has abandoned him for her work; Angela, who's built a successful business, belittles her husband Marcus, who works for her; Mike is cruel to Sheila, his religious, overweight wife. During the week, each person's secret comes out. Will these marriages survive?

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How did it meet the convention?Anicia

Has comedy in it

Love and relationships involved in it

Conflicts

Emotionally moves the audience

We learn that..

• There are many different conventions of Drama.– Natural Disaster– Relationships– Conflicts– Even Deaths

• It can link to other genres.– Adventure– Fantasy– Action

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It inspire us..

• If making a drama film we must have…– The conventions

• Conflict

• Love

• Tragedy

– Linking the story

• Examples of films that have these conventions:– Romeo and Juliet

– Titanic

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