THE GENRE RESEARCH Our group have decided to go for the Drama genre for our short

film.

What is a Drama Film:

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters and situations dealing with emotional themes such as Peer Pressure, Bullying and Crimes.

Drama can be interlaced with other genres such as comedy, tragedy, action, etc.

Conventions of a Drama Film: • Conveys real life situations with realistic characters, settings and

stories.• Conveys the journey which the character takes on and it shows the

development of the characters. • The purpose of it is to send subtle message and move the audience

emotionally. • Audience related- Eg: Teenagers can relate to the theme of Bullying. • Form of realization at the end that can either be positive or negative. • Drama film are mostly based on a true story or shows the reality of a

real life situation that can occur to anyone and gives out a subtle message about how to deal with the issue.

• It includes climaxes and dramatic scenes to keep the audience on their sit.

• Sometimes dramas have a twist in the end.

Sub-Genres and Hybrid Our Drama film doesn’t really fit within a sub- genre and it is not a hybrid, although it contains elements of other genres such as fast phased running which we will have in our film which is like the action film and it contains moralistic messages like docudrama.

As a snapshot into our main protagonist’s life she will be battling her demons. This drama is a tragedy because the main protagonist fails to overcome her demons that leads her back to her parents house and become child like. Unlike her friends, she fails to come of age and step into becoming an adult and fulfilling her dreams.

Audience: • There are many types of Drama so we must be clear about who our audience

is:• Our target audience are teenagers from age 13-18+. This is the time in a teenage

life where they may face similar issues addressed in our film.• Our main theme of our drama film is “Peer Pressure” which is one way we are

going to attract our target audience because this issue is something they can relate to, so they are likely to watch it and with the subtle message our film will gives, it will ensure that they know how to deal with it if they face the similar issues after watching our film. This is one of our main aim, it is to get the message out to our targeted audience.

• Other ways we will attract the audience is through using teenage characters. Also, we will be careful in the way we decide to represent the characters, for example, whether they should be represented negatively or positively.

• We will compose our own non diegetic music which will be modern and fast paced at some point through out the film which will make it more exciting to our audience. Non diegetic music is not always used but as our audience is teenagers we will use it to attract them.

Existing Drama Films:

Short Film Research

Codes and Conventions of Short Films:

• It has 2-3 characters and are portrayed in a short amount of time. • It contains a twist either Beginning, Middle or End. This makes it appealing to

the audience as they become unaware of the twist and when it occurs it creates the feeling of excitement and desperation to find out more. Thus it keeps the audience interested.

• They can also be moralistic which fits with our film.• The storylines are set in everyday setting and this helps audience relate to the

film and it makes them look forward to the climax or resolution of the situation. • It uses Narrative Enigmas- this is where audience doesn’t fully understand

the starting point and it is sometimes revealed during the middle of the film or the end.

• Also uses Hermeneutic Codes- appears at the beginning of the story creating unexplained or unanswered questions, thus creating tensions that engages the audience.

• It uses Proairetic Code- refers to mere actions. Plots that leads to another actions. Suspense is created by actions rather than by a viewer's wish to have mysterious explained.