The genre that we decided to go with in my group for our short film was Drama – this is a well recognised genre, films of this genre of are quite serious and are very plot driven. It is quite difficult to pick specific codes and conventions that these films use. Some of the most evident elements within these types of films is the fact that they avoid focusing on things such as special effects and more on delivering powerful performances illustrating realistic characters. Drama films can be broken down into different categories, e.g. Historical and Crime
An example of a recent film within this genre that had a historical/criminal based theme was, Michael Mann’s – Public Enemies. This film was based on a real American criminal. Films of this genre may sometimes subvert from Todorov’s theory of an equilibrium being resolved an example of a short film like this would include: The INSiDE or On Time.
Adeel, why have you not posted in so many days? I know you have done more work than this, but you will not get credit unless you can demonstrate this! Get blogging. You need audience research, script-writing, storyboarding, etc.
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