Genre Exploration

By: Maria Fashakin 12.p

The purpose of Drama

• The purpose of genre:

• Is to put characters into conflict and create tension and moral panic.

• Another purpose would be to demonstrate the different issues of people’s everyday lives in society. The dramatic themes are taken from intense, real life issues for example their could be heroes or heroines that are facing a conflict from the outside or a conflict within themselves

The genre Drama came about..

In the 50s

Drama focuses on

people’s everyday lives in society/ real life issues

The subgenres of Drama

• Melodrama Is to capture the audience emoticons, it mixes music and romance to appeal to the target audience.

• Docudrama Is to learn, find historical information for the use of identity. It could also be used to highlight the drama that goes

on in todays society, in order to make people more aware of the society we live in.

• Historical Drama Examines a specific time in history or group of people. Many Historical films aim to portray true events and

people. However, most Historical films are only loosely based on these events and people. They tend to focus more on the romans, kings and queens.

• Romance The purpose is to give an overwhelming emotional side or happy ending to the movie. The general conventions

would be a boy meets a girl they end up falling in love or end up in a relationship. Issues occur with the boy and girl in the relationship.

The purpose of the subgenres

The purpose of melodrama Is to capture the audiences emotions and usually has a happy ending. It usuallyuses a mixture between romantic/musical elements.

The Purpose of Docudrama Is to learn, find historical information for the use of identity.

Historical drama Films that focus on dramatic events in history for example ‘’Good night Mr Tom’’ focused on the world war.

Romance The purpose is to give an overwhelming emotional side or happy ending to the movie, and evoke sympathy.

Some of the conventions of drama:There are usually moral dilemmas, social exclusion, Prejudices, poverty, structured climaxes, division in society. It reflects real life situations with realistic character settings.

Some examples of Drama moviesPrecious Precious:

bad relationship with her mumLearning difficultiesrapeTeenage pregnancyDisabilityPovertySingle parent

The pursuit of happiness

Pursuit of happiness:PovertySingle parentHomelessCrime

My sisters keeper My sisters keeper:DisabilityTerminal illnessBad relationshipsRomanceDeath

Titanic DeathTragedyRomance

Love & basketball Bad relationships Romance