ASSIGNMENT 8

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONDRAMA

BY: VERA OSEI

What are Drama Films?

Drama films are:Cinema and television productions, which use realistic characters dealing with emotional themes, for example anger, pain, and happiness.Drama themes often deal with real-life events and experiences, such as drugs, alcohol, sexual relationships, and crime

Why Make Drama Films?

Drama films are sources of information and entertainment for the public.

They allow the audience to empathise with events by associating themselves with the characters, exploring psychological and emotional experiences.

The use of fictional and non-fictional characters makes it easier to tell stories, present news, to control behaviour, provide advice, and education.

How Does Drama Make an Audience Feel

Drama makes people feel happy, sad, and excited.

Drama can make people angry, cry and hurt.

Drama makes people imagine future, or remember past events

Blood Diamond• Sub-genre- Adventure/Drama/Thriller- True story: Western Africa- Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999,• Convention- Violent- Blood- torture• Country torn apart by the struggle

between government soldiers and rebel forces

characters

The Good guyA fishermanLoving father/husbandStrong/determined

character• The Good/Bad• A smugger who will do anything to

get diamonds and exchange them for gun

• Secret• Towards the end he changed his

mind, and be the nice guy

Close up Reverse shotAngry

2 shotsHe founds love

Character

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi364577049/

The Bad Guy

- Runs the slave camp

- Forces children to kill

- Exchange diamond for weapons

- Loses his eye Violent knife in the child's throat

knife, glass

2 shot of them running Long shot

2 shotFull shot

Mid shot

Long shot

2 shot

Mid-shot Mid-shot

Target Audience

• Violence• Violence may be strong but should not

dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. They are many violence portray in this film

• Guns, war, child's rights, killing people

Sound/lighting

Low pitch

Med pitch

High pitch

The music begins at a low pitch then towards the end it gets higher and higher which shows that something bad is about to happen.

The music also build tension to the viewer because the beat keep on building up, As it starts from low to high pitch. Making the audience emotionally aware.

John Q• Sub-genre• Drama ,Thriller • Convention- Relationship- Society- hostage• A down-on-his luck father, whose

insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.

characters• Loving father and husband• Determined to save his son• Worried• sad• Angry • Stressed out

John Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjbkzGiM2sE

Reverse shotJohn giving his son advice

Mid-close shot/ Reverse shot of John crying and saying goodbye to his son

Scene 13: saying goodbye to his son

John QScene 3: John at home completing medical papers for his son

Close shot of him completing hospital form

Mid-shot of him completing the form

Close up shot of the character frustrated

Target Audience• Violent- When John’s emotion controls him to the extend that he punches one of the hospital worker because he wanted to stop him from saving his son.• Hostage - Kidnapping people without their rights or freedom.• Gun- He keeps a gun in order for people to get scared of him, but he doesn’t have any intention of using it.

Precious

• Genre - Drama/Biography• Convention- Isolation- Violent/abuse

character• Isolated- Has no voice- Abused by her step father and mother• Dreams- Future- Becoming a star/dancer- fantasy

Character 2• Hates her own child because her husband

had an eye for her.• Violent• Behaves like a monster• Lazy• Grandmother to two children

Her mother seating down on the sofa and smoking.

PreciousScene 7: Precious comes home with her new baby, and then mum starts a fight with precious

Two shot of an argument between precious and her mum.

This is a scene where precious falls.

Mid-two shot of Precious standing up for herself

Two shot of precious taking her son away after standing up for her rights.

Target Audience• Violence- Violence may be strong but should not

dwell on the infliction of pain or injury (example scene 7 mum violent throws a glass at Precious).

- Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also unlikely to be acceptable( the scene where Precious is sexual abuse by her dad).

• Language- There may be frequent use of strong language (example scene 1 Precious says “ shut the fuck up”) to one of her class mate

My Genre And What Is About

• My chosen genre is “abuse”. Abuse used as film genre gets the audience to psychologically put themselves in the characters position or situation. It Involves a male or female character been sexually, emotionally or physically abused. The movie that inspired me was “precious” which talks about family and child abuse and has already been discussed in my previous examples of films that inspired my ideas.

THEME

My theme is about crime, melodrama or abuse.CRIME: This involves people exchanging things for weapons in order to persuade people to kill etc.MELODRAMA: When there is a man or woman struggling to protect or save his or her child from dying.ABUSE: Involves a male or female character been sexually, emotionally or physically harassed.

The two main ideas I have chosen is melodrama and abuse because these two are very important to be discussed in our everyday life.

IDEAS AND PLANS FOR BOTH OPENING SEQUENCE AND WHOLE MOVIE

WHOLE MOVIE

A girl goes out with friends and meets a guy who ends up to be her boyfriend and this guy takes advantage of the fact that she doesn’t have anyone who has her back. Her mum who is a single parent advised her to back out but she refused which led to her untimely death.

OPENING SEQUENCE

A flashback of her lying on the floor helplessly trying to remember who will try to kill her and then remembered that it was her boyfriend.

ENIGMA OF MY FILM

It will start with my first character enters the club with her friends then cuts of to the scene where she was lying on the bed with a guy and the final part where she was lying on the floor helplessly. There will be a question at the end asking ‘will she survive this trauma?’

MY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION

• My main character represents the girl who falls in love with a guy she meets at the club and end up dating him.

• My second character is the mother of the my first character who tried her best to prevent her daughter from falling into the trap of the club guy.

• My last character is the guy who my first character falls in love with and then took full advantage of her until he successfully put poison in her drink to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy which led to her untimely death.

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