Point 8 - Research of Genre

Drama comedy films usually convey a well thought out story that has meaning to it that the audience can think about afterwards but for them to enjoy it more a touch of comedy is added to make it more light-hearted. With the drama side of the genre the storyline is usually a serious, plot-driven narrative that shows realistic characters, settings, life situations and involves intense character interaction. It mostly never focuses on special-effects comedy or action but focus on telling a realistic and emotional storyline. With the way the narrative is structured most start by showing you the ending of the film and then works it's way back, allowing the audience to be very confused at the start of the film and then all is revealed if you keep watching it, another is having a voice over at the beginning and one character introducing themselves while shots are shown on screen. The comedy side usually provides the humour by the characters doing silly embarssing things that the audience can either find hilarious because it's so unreal or something that they can relate to as they've done it themselves. Examples of these films are:

A women who gets divorced and goes on a round-the-world trip to "find herself".

A story of man and following his life.

Telling the tale of a group of teenagers in DT.

Shows a family determind to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant.

 

Most of these films have a light-hearted story to it which a range of audience members can enjoy from young to old. Other conventions of this genre is having upbeat and modern music and providing a rollercoaster of emotions, making you laugh in hysterics at one moment and then in floods of tears the next.

 

So for our film opening we need to include:

 

• A voice-over
• Modern music
• Main character introducing himself to the audience
• A silly embarassing moment (which the audience can relate to)