The document discusses Vera Osei's individual presentation on drama films. It provides definitions of drama films, explaining they use realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. It also discusses why drama films are made, noting they are sources of information and entertainment that allow audiences to empathize with characters. The document then examines how drama makes audiences feel, such as happy, sad, excited, angry or helping them imagine or remember events. It analyzes several drama films through their genres, conventions, characters and target audiences. Finally, Vera Osei outlines her chosen genre of abuse and plans for an opening sequence and film about a girl who dates a man taking advantage of her.

1. ASSIGNMENT 8
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION
DRAMA
BY: VERA OSEI

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. Why Make Drama Films?
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

5. Blood Diamond
• Sub-genre
- Adventure/Drama/Thriller
- True story: Western Africa
- Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999,
• Convention
- Violent
- Blood
- torture
• Country torn apart by the struggle
between government soldiers and rebel
forces

6. characters
The Good guy
A fisherman
Loving father/husband
Strong/determined

7. character
• The Good/Bad
• A smugger who will do anything to
get diamonds and exchange them for
gun
• Secret Close up Reverse shot
• Towards the end he changed his Angry
mind, and be the nice guy
2 shots
He founds love

8. Character
The Bad Guy
knife, glass
- Runs the slave camp
- Forces children to kill
- Exchange diamond for
weapons
- Loses his eye Violent knife
in the child's
throat
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi
364577049/

9. 2 shot of them
Long shot Long shot
running
Mid-shot
Mid-shot
2 shot
2 shot Mid shot
Full shot

10. Target Audience
• Violence
• Violence may be strong but should not
dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.
They are many violence portray in this film
• Guns, war, child's rights, killing people

11. Sound/lighting
The music begins at a low pitch then towards the
Low pitch
end it gets higher and higher which shows that
something bad is about to happen.
The music also build tension to the viewer Med pitch
because the beat keep on building up, As it starts
from low to high pitch. Making the audience
emotionally aware. High pitch

12. John Q
• Sub-genre
• Drama ,Thriller
• Convention
- Relationship
- Society
- hostage
• A down-on-his luck father, whose
insurance won't cover his son's heart
transplant, takes the hospital's emergency
room hostage until the doctors agree to
perform the operation.

13. characters
• Loving father and husband
• Determined to save his son
• Worried
• sad
• Angry
• Stressed out

14. John Q
Scene 13: saying goodbye
to his son
Reverse shot
John giving his
son advice
Mid-close shot/ Reverse shot
of John crying and saying
goodbye to his son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
jbkzGiM2sE

15. John Q
Scene 3: John at home
completing medical
papers for his son
Close shot of him
completing hospital
form Close up shot of
the character
frustrated
Mid-shot of him
completing the form

16. Target Audience
• Violent
- When John’s emotion controls him to the
extend that he punches one of the hospital
worker because he wanted to stop him from
saving his son.
• Hostage
- Kidnapping people without their rights or
freedom.
• Gun
- He keeps a gun in order for people to get
scared of him, but he doesn’t have any
intention of using it.

17. Precious
• Genre
- Drama/Biography
• Convention
- Isolation
- Violent/abuse

18. character
• Isolated
- Has no voice
- Abused by her step father and mother
• Dreams
- Future
- Becoming a star/dancer
- fantasy

19. Character 2
• Hates her own child because her husband
had an eye for her.
• Violent
• Behaves like a monster
• Lazy
• Grandmother to two children
Her mother seating
down on the sofa and
smoking.

20. Precious
Scene 7: Precious comes
home with her new baby, and
then mum starts a fight with
precious
Two shot of precious
Two shot of an argument taking her son away
between precious and her after standing up for
mum. her rights.
Mid-two shot of Precious This is a scene where
standing up for herself precious falls.

21. Target Audience
• Violence
- Violence may be strong but should not
dwell on the infliction of pain or injury
(example scene 7 mum violent throws a
glass at Precious).
- Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is
also unlikely to be acceptable( the scene
where Precious is sexual abuse by her
dad).
• Language
- There may be frequent use of strong
language (example scene 1 Precious says “
shut the fuck up”) to one of her class mate

22. My Genre And What Is About
• My chosen genre is “abuse”. Abuse used
as film genre gets the audience to
psychologically put themselves in the
characters position or situation. It
Involves a male or female character been
sexually, emotionally or physically abused.
The movie that inspired me was
“precious” which talks about family and
child abuse and has already been
discussed in my previous examples of
films that inspired my ideas.

23. THEME
My theme is about crime, melodrama The two main ideas I have chosen is
or abuse. melodrama and abuse because
CRIME: This involves people exchanging these two are very important to be
things for weapons in order to discussed in our everyday life.
persuade people to kill etc.
MELODRAMA: When there is a man or
woman struggling to protect or save his
or her child from dying.
ABUSE: Involves a male or female
character been sexually, emotionally or
physically harassed.

24. IDEAS AND PLANS FOR BOTH OPENING SEQUENCE AND WHOLE MOVIE
WHOLE MOVIE OPENING SEQUENCE
A girl goes out with friends and
meets a guy who ends up to be A flashback of her lying on the floor
her boyfriend and this guy helplessly trying to remember who will
takes advantage of the fact try to kill her and then remembered
that she doesn’t have anyone that it was her boyfriend.
who has her back. Her mum
who is a single parent advised
her to back out but she
refused which led to her
untimely death.

25. ENIGMA OF MY FILM
It will start with my first character
enters the club with her friends then
cuts of to the scene where she was
lying on the bed with a guy and the
final part where she was lying on the
floor helplessly. There will be a
question at the end asking ‘will she
survive this trauma?’

26. MY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION
• My main character represents the girl
who falls in love with a guy she meets
at the club and end up dating him.
• My second character is the mother of
the my first character who tried her
best to prevent her daughter from
falling into the trap of the club guy.
• My last character is the guy who my
first character falls in love with and
then took full advantage of her until
he successfully put poison in her
drink to get rid of an unwanted
pregnancy which led to her untimely
death.

27. THE END