This document discusses the genre of drama and its purposes and subgenres. Drama focuses on portraying people's real life issues and conflicts in society. It aims to create tension and moral dilemmas. The subgenres include melodrama which appeals to emotions, docudrama which provides historical information, historical drama which examines events in history, and romance which provides an emotional story often with a happy ending. Examples are given of popular drama films that portray difficult topics like poverty, disability, and relationships.

1. Genre Exploration
By: Maria Fashakin 12.p

2. The purpose of Drama
Drama people’s everyday lives in
focuses on society/ real life issues
The genre Drama
In the 50s
came about..
• The purpose of genre:
• Is to put characters into conflict and create tension and moral panic.
• Another purpose would be to demonstrate the different issues of people’s everyday lives in society. The dramatic
themes are taken from intense, real life issues for example their could be heroes or heroines that are facing a
conflict from the outside or a conflict within themselves

3. The subgenres of Drama
• Melodrama
 Is to capture the audience emoticons, it mixes music and romance to appeal to the target audience.
• Docudrama
 Is to learn, find historical information for the use of identity. It could also be used to highlight the drama that goes
on in todays society, in order to make people more aware of the society we live in.
• Historical Drama
 Examines a specific time in history or group of people. Many Historical films aim to portray true events and
people. However, most Historical films are only loosely based on these events and people. They tend to focus
more on the romans, kings and queens.
• Romance
 The purpose is to give an overwhelming emotional side or happy ending to the movie. The general conventions
would be a boy meets a girl they end up falling in love or end up in a relationship. Issues occur with the boy and
girl in the relationship.

4. The purpose of the subgenres
Some of the conventions of drama:
There are usually moral dilemmas, social exclusion,
Prejudices, poverty, structured climaxes, division in
society. It reflects real life situations with realistic
character settings.
The purpose of melodrama Is to capture the audiences emotions and
usually has a happy ending. It usually
uses a mixture between
romantic/musical elements.
The Purpose of Docudrama Is to learn, find historical information for
the use of identity.
Historical drama Films that focus on dramatic events in
history for example ‘’Good night Mr Tom’’
focused on the world war.
Romance The purpose is to give an overwhelming
emotional side or happy ending to the
movie, and evoke sympathy.

5. Some examples of Drama movies
Precious:
Precious bad relationship with her mum
Learning difficulties
rape
Teenage pregnancy
Disability
Poverty
Single parent
The pursuit of Pursuit of happiness:
Poverty
happiness Single parent
Homeless
Crime
My sisters keeper My sisters keeper:
Disability
Terminal illness
Bad relationships
Romance
Death
Titanic Death
Tragedy
Romance
Love & basketball Bad relationships
Romance