The document discusses various genres and themes within drama films, including crime drama, historical drama, docudrama, comedy-drama, and melodrama. It provides examples of films like Mommie Dearest, Mean Girls, The Help, and Love and Other Drugs that portray themes of abuse, betrayal, racial prejudice, and romance. The document also analyzes shot types and techniques commonly used in drama films to convey emotion and move the plot forward.

1. By: Vanessa Justino

2. Drama is a film genre that depends mostly on
in-depth development of realistic characters
dealing with emotional situation.
Dramatic themes :
alcoholism, drug addiction, betrayal, moral
dilemmas racial prejudice, religious
intolerance, poverty and many more.
 Human
 Dramatic Irony – Audience knows something that
characters don't. Reason use: To involve audience.
 Comments when not on the right situation
 Long Movements
 Big face expression
 Deep Breath
 Narratives
 Spectrum Motions
 Lots of Drama, then slows down

3.  Crime drama and Legal drama: Involving criminals, law enforcement and the legal
system.
 Historical drama ( WAR): Films that focus on dramatic events in history.
 Docudrama: It uses professionally trained actors to play the roles in the current
event, that is "dramatized" a bit.
 Comedy-drama: Balance of humor and serious content.
 Melodrama: plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience. Often
deal with "crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial
situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship.
 Romance: a sub-type of dramatic film which show romantic love.
 Tragedy: Is when character's breakdown is caused by their in judgment and
imperfection

4.  60 & 70s it brought
politically driven dramas
focusing on war.
 80s Dramatic Film put
emphasis on Highly emotional
themes,
 The first ever work on
theory in drama and dramatics
was Aristotle's Poetics,
published in c. 335 BCE.

5. Directed by: Frank Perry
Produced by: Frank Yablans, David Koontz,
Terrence O’Neill, Neil A. Machilis
Release Date: September 18, 1981
Running time: 128 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Rated PG-13
Plot: Joan Crawford is one of Hollywood's biggest
stars. She tells her boyfriend lawyer Greg Savitt that
she isn't satisfied living in her
Brentwood mansion with just her dedicated
secretary Carol Ann and housekeeper Helga. Greg
arranges for Joan to adopt a baby girl. Joan is
obsessed with perfection, and Christina finds it
impossible to live up to her mother's standards.

6. The theme explores
child abuse making it
dramatic as it is defined
Medium shot: was to as a drama film.
show facial expressions
but also how body
language.
This scene from the film makes it look
dramatic because they exaggerate on the
size of the hats and also face expression
Joan Crawford & Adopted Daughter Christina, (Smile, mouth open and Eyebrows raised)
We can see they come from a upper class,
very wealthy by the big silk hats and Designed
Dresses. (Older Days only Rich people where
those clothes)
Parents that put their fame, success,
job... Before families and Love.

7. Directed by: Mark Waters
Produced by: Lorne Michaels, Tony Shimkin, Louise
Rosner, Jill Messick
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Running time: 97 minutes
Country : United States & Canada
Language: English
Rated PG-13
Plot: Cady Heron moves to a new home from the
bush country of Africa. She goes to a new school
where she meets Janis and Damian. Her new
friends warn her to stay away from the Plastics:
the A-list, popular, crude, and beautiful clique
headed by Regina George with Gretchen and
Karen. When Cady sees Aaron Samuels, she falls in
love. When Regina discovers this, she seeks
revenge by taking and dangling Aaron in front of
Cady. Now Cady, Janis, and Damian plot to bring
Regina's status down. However, as Cady continues
to spend more time with the Plastics, she begins to
become one of them.

8. Full Shot / Long shot
shows the image as
approximately "life" size
i.e. corresponding to the
real distance between
the audience and the
screen in a cinema
Close up shot:
To show emotion of
response from character.
This Drama portrays use of
alcoholism and betrayal
Teenage girls, that wants to be
noticed in school.

9. Directed by: Tate Taylor
Produced by: Chris Columbu, Michael Barnathan,
Brunson Green
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Running Time: 146 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Rated PG-13
Plot: Skeeter is a southern society girl who
returns from college determined to become a
writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a
Mississippi town -- upside down when she
decides to interview the black women who have
spent their lives taking care of prominent
southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best
friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up - to
the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black
community.

10. 180 Degrees:
Two Shot:
Normally used when
To show two people in
having a dialogue
one shot.
Basic Guideline in Film,
By this shot, we can see
making the 2 characters or
both of the women's
other elements in the
action in the scene.
same scene.
Over the Shoulder :
Show a conversation
between two people. It
helps the audience place
the characters in their
setting. Male 25+, Female 25+

11. Directed by: Edward Zwick
Produced by: Edward Zwick, Scott Stuber,
Marshall Herskovitz, Charles Randolph, Pieter
Jan Brugge
Released date: November 24, 2010
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Rated: 15
Plot: Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't
let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she
meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless
and nearly infallible charm serve him well with
the ladies and in the cutthroat world of
pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's
evolving relationship takes them both by
surprise, as they find themselves under the
influence of the ultimate drug: love

12. Long shot:
Eye level Shot: To shows the entire human figure
Shows that the characters and also where the action is
are in equal footing with the taking place.
subject being filmed.
Jake Gyllenhall Anne Hathaway
As Jamie Randall As Maggie Murdock

13. Directed by: Pedro Almodocar
Produced by: Agustin Almodovar , Pedro Almodovar
Release date: May 19, 2011 & August 26, 2011 (UK)
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Rated 15
Plot: A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past
tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that
withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a
mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to
his obsession.