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.