R6 - GENRE: DRAMA

•  Conventions of Drama:
  • Exhibits real life situations with realistic characters, settings, and stories
  • Portrays journeys of character development
  • Intense social interaction
  • Purpose of a dramatic story line is to move the audience emotionally
• • Heart of drama is the conflict
  • Conflicts include inner/outer realistic struggles depicting hardships, difficulty, and pain
  • Audience can relate to the Characters (Preferred reading – Halls Theory)
  • Structured with climaxes and anti climaxes to keep the audience emotionally attached and the tension ongoing
  • A form of realisation at the end/happily ending
• • Drama can be interlaced with other genres such as comedy, tragedy, etc. It does not have to be complete drama.
• Drama Films That Break Conventions
  • Titanic breaks the conventions as all does not end happily for the protagonists, but has a rather tragic ending.