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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