2. WHAT ARE DRAMA FILMS?
Drama films are:
 Cinema and television productions, which use realistic characters
dealing with emotional themes, for example anger, pain, and
happiness.
 Drama themes often deal with real-life events and experiences,
such as drugs, alcohol, sexual relationships, and crime.

3. Drama films are sources of information and entertainment for the public.
They allow the audience to empathise with events by associating themselves
with the characters, exploring psychological and emotional experiences.
The use of fictional and non-fictional characters makes it easier to tell
stories, present news, to control behaviour, provide advice, and education.

4. HOW DOES DRAMA MAKE AN
AUDIENCE FEEL
 Drama makes people feel happy, sad, and excited.
 Drama can make people angry, cry and hurt.
 Drama makes people imagine future, or remember past events

6. GENERAL INFORMATION…
Director: Tyler Perry
Writers: Tyler Perry (screenplay), Ntozake
Shange (play)
Stars: Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose and
Whoopi Goldberg.
Plot: Each of the women portray one of the
characters represented in the collection of
twenty poems, revealing different issues that
impact women in general and women of colour
in particular.

7. SCENES FROM THE MOVIE
“FOR COLOURED GIRLS”
This scene shows Her face shows
the unity, hopeless
happiness and fear, pain, lonelin
friendship found ess and someone
between the crying out for
characters. help.
Here we can see
poverty, desperation
and the exploitation
women can suffer

8. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

9. GENERAL INFORMATION…
 Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
 Writers: Simon Beaufoy (screenplay), Vikas Swarup (novel)
 Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Saurabh Shukla
 Plot: A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant
on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is
arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being
interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he
knows the answers.

10. SCENES FROM THE MOVIE
The picture shows
the brother of the This is an Indian god who
main character, refused to help the little boy
sacrificing his life in time of trouble.
so his brother’s
girlfriend could be
free.
This scene shows when
the boy struggles to get his
role models autograph.

11. CONVENTIONS OF BOTH
D R A M A M OV I E S
 Relationships between two characters, mainly male and female.
 Conflicts, struggles and problems between the lovers, families,
social class and friends.
 Emotions( extreme emotions) leading to tears, heartbreaks,
loneliness and suffering from being separated from their loved ones.
 Happy endings are always involved in drama films to take the
audience on an emotional roller coaster.

12. V I D E O C L I P S F RO M T H E M OV I E S
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2727282969/
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2220163097/

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