ASSIGNEMENT 4: GENRE PARTNER PROJECT
By Milka & Gia
DRAMA
By Milka
COLOUR CODE
Milka- blue
Gia -red
DRAMA
A drama film is basically a drama film because of
the way it makes the audience relate with the
characters.
This is done through a mixture of a skillfully
written script, a sharp level of tension and good use
of editing
Established: Around 1915
One of first drama movies: One
Million
HISTORY ABOUT DRAMA
Drama is the picture of a fairy-tale piece of work, called
“play” on stage.
A sequence of moving events, ends in a drama.
Drama is a popular form of entertainment that has
been used for entertainment of huge audiences, since
ages.
Dramatic movies are enjoyed by all genders and ages .
American history x 1998
Forrest Gump 1994
The Fighter 2010
Films About Mental Illness:
Frances
Based on true story’s :
(1982)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Sports Dramas:
A modern hero/Knute Rockne: All-American (1940)
Title: Why Did I Get Married?
Director: Tyler PerryPlot: Four couples, who are also best friends, meet on a house in the mountains for a week-long retreat that has become their service of sorts to help work out their marriage problems and ask the question "Why did I get married?"... Distributing company: Lions gate
Released: 2006
The way this film meets it conventions is the predictable ending, where one of the couples, split up, and the rest live happily ever after
Title: American history x
Director: Tony kaye
Distribution company: New Line Cinema
Released : 1998
Plot: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's telling, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A.
How this film meets the drama convention is that the boy, ends up doing what his brother does, and is very predictable at the beginning of the film, by the way he was acting.
Title: Forrest gump
Director: Robert zemckis
Plot :Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny.Distributing company: Parmount
Released: 1994
Forrest gump meets its conventions by the way he starts of his life very depressing, but ends up begging happy
Title: Coach carter
Director: Thomas Carter
Distributing company: Lionsgate
Plot:Though based on a true story, Samuel L. Jackson’s performance makes Coach Carter especially memorable. There is always a threat of student athletes concentrating more on athletic endeavours than academics. Such was the case with Carter’s players. What makes him a great teacher is the fact that he literally puts a halt on the basketball season until grades improve.Released: 2005
The way this film meets it convention is, that a group of guys have a ruff start with there coach, but end up loving him, when they realize what he has done for them.
Title: the snake pit
Director: Anatole LitvakPlot :Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane haven...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms.Distributing company: 20th century fox
Released: 1948
There are different genres that have mixed with
drama. These are :
Romance
Comedy
Crime
Thriller
HOW HAVE DRAMAS EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS?
Dramas have evolved by taking risks.
Networks are not the only outlets any more.
dramas were two hour movies where you
had a predictable beginning, but now, they
have challenged the conventions of its genre
Drama Conventions: •Realistic storyline•There is some form of understanding at the end of the film•Some short of journey•There has to be peaks in the storyline •A happy ever after
LINKS
Coach carter trailer
http://youtu.be/nOFhHEepF4s
Forrest Gump
http://youtu.be/obaW5wZw3rE
THINGS I LEARNT AB OUT, IN THESE FILMS & HOW DID THEY INSP IRE
ME? :
How to be more dramatic
Different shots from different angels
How to do good close up shots
Flashbacks, to make the audience know what
went on before
HORROR
By Gia
HISTORY ABOUT HORROR
Horror is an olden art form.
They have tried to frighten people with tales
which trigger the less logical parts of our
imaginations for as long as they told stories.
Approximately when this genre was established is,
1890s–1920s.
CONVENTIONS
Horror films, when done well and with less trust on horrifying special effects, can be extremely forceful film forms, tapping into our dream states and the horror of the silly and unknown, and the horror within man himself.
HOW HAS HORROR EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS?
Those who dare to do exciting, groundbreaking,
truthful, deep subject areas and font are following with
their audiences.
have evolved by taking risks.
Dramatic Conventions:
Stay the fixed actions or organizations the actor, writer or manager has busy to create a wanted affected effect or style.
How horror has changed over time
The setting in which a text is produced, that is the gathering of factors
'outside' the text which knowingly determine its meaning (i.e. the time,
place and values of the society in which it was collected), have an
important influence on the reception and symbol of the genre of which
that text is a part. An example of such an rate is the horror genre and the
way in which it has varied and taken numerous forms throughout time and
in different cultures.
In order to be defined as a text from the horror genre, certain
characteristics are usually required, yet due to the constantly changing
values of society throughout time, not to mention the opposite values of
different cultures around the world, these characteristics are not only
pretty broad, but open to use and assumption as a result of the different
time and place, as well as the values of the society in which a text is
produced.
Saw
Director-James Wan
Plot-. Both men are chained at the ankle to the
pipes at opposite ends of the room. Lying between
them is a body in a small pool of blood holding a
handgun and recorder. There pretending to be the
victim.
Distribution company -Lions Gate Entertainment
Released- 29 October 2004
How does this film meet conventions of horror?
Night of the demon
Director - Jacques Tourneur
Plot-In England, Professor Harrington approaches Dr. Julian
Karswell, the leader of a satanic cult, promising to call off an
investigation of the cult if Karswell would call off "what he has
started". Karswell agrees. After learning that a parchment given to
Harrington has disintegrated, he ushers Harrington out. After
Harrington arrives at his home, a demon materializes in the woods
and approaches Harrington. Fleeing in his car, Harrington crashes
into a telegraph pole which causes falling power lines to electrocute
him.
Distribution company-
Released-1957 British horror film
Paranormal activity
Director - Oren Peli
Plot- a student who claims that a ghostly entity has haunted
her since
her youth.
Distribution company- Paramount Pictures
Released- 2007
Drag me to hell
Director- Sam Raimi
Plot-The plot focuses on loan officer Christine Brown , who
tries to impress her boss by refusing to extend a loan to a
gypsy woman by the name of Mrs. Ganush .
Distribution company-lionsgate uk
Released- 27 May 2009
Prom night 2
Director –Nelson McCormick
Plot – revengeWhen Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou
Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge
30 years later.
Released- 13 November 1987
W H AT D I D L E A R N F R O M T H E S E S F I L M S
1950 films They used a more methods in giving their films
through widescreen and big-approach methods.
The early 20th century brought more signs for the horror
genre including the first monster to appear in a full-length
horror film.
I learnt that over time there has been changes in horror
films, there has been a change in technology so they is more of
a chance you being scared now a day more than be for.
H O W T H E F I L M S I N S P I R E D M E
The films inspired me because they all meet up to
expectations, all the films I picked are horror films
so they are meant to scare you and make you feel
disgusted and these films did.