Anna De Azevedo

Andreea Cristea

Drama

•Characters dealing with emotional themes

•Characters who are in conflict at a crucial moments in their lives

Dramatic ThemesAlcoholism Drug addiction Poverty

Class division Violence against women Corruption

SubgenresCrime drama Historical drama

Comedy-drama Romance

Tragedy

How has this genre change over time?

• Film genre has changed over time but not dramatically

• 1950 ‘s - slowly changed drama to a more realistic tenor (content)• 1960 ‘s-1970 ‘s -modern dramatic directors made some of their first

films

e.g. - Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather (1972). Martin Scorsese directed Taxi Driver (1976), Mean Streets (1973), and musical drama New York, New York (1977)

•1980 ‘s-1990 ‘s - dramatic film put emphasis on highly emotional themes

Conventions of the chosen films

• Love

• Tragedy

• Lost love

• Happy ending

• Sad ending

• Poverty

• Social Class

14 April 2010 (UK)

Director: Lasse Hallström

A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.

Screen Gems

Dear John

Channing Tatum

Amanda Seyfried Richard Jenkins

Dear John

3 shot

Medium close up

Over the shoulder shot

Long Shots

Two shot

Stage 6 films

Richard Gere

Joan Allen

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Sarah Roemer

Close up of object

Medium close-up shot Reverse shot Over the shoulder shot

Two shot Three shot

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

12 September 2008 (UK)

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Director: Mark Herman

Miramax Films

Asa Butterfield Vera Farmiga David Thewlis

The boy in striped pyjamas

Over the shoulder shot Two shotArial shot

Low angle to make look inferior

180 degrees rule

Point of view