Presentation describing the conventions of a drama film including iconography, narrative, characters and music

1. Conventions of the Drama
Genre
BY REBECCA BANKES

2. Narrative
 The story should exhibit real life situations to
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make it easier for the audience to relate to.
You should see the characters and their
relationships with other characters develop.
The main hook of the film should be conflict
involving realistic struggles portraying
hardships, difficulty and pain.
There should be climaxes to keep the tension
and make sure the audience stay connected to
the film.
At the end there should be a form of
realisation or a happy ending.

3. Characters
 The characters must be realistic so the audience can
relate to them.
 The audience should be able to relate to the
characters to elicit certain emotions i.e. sadness.
 There will usually be one or two main characters that
the story revolves around.

4. Music
 The music generally depends on if the film has a
sub-genre i.e. action then music would be likely to be
fast pace, tense and possibly aggressive, or romantic
then the music would be likely to be soft, sad and
maybe slower.
 Either way the music will be used to evoke strong
emotions, usually of sadness, anger and sometimes
at the end happiness, from the audience.

5. Iconography
 Iconography refers to signs and symbols that
are typical conventions of a particular genre .
 Drama films don’t tend to have specific
settings it all depends on the sub-genre of the
film, for example batman is set in a city and
forest gum is set in different towns in a
America and a warzone.
 There can be all types of props
depending on what the situation is
with the characters, but usually
there is something meaningful that
will bring about strong emotions in
the audience, for example the blue
heart necklace in titanic.