Genre Research: Drama


  Hello, my name is Jose Retana. Today, I will drive you step by step on how I chose my genre. Of course, if you want to see my decision, skip to the decision blog. In this blog, I will drive you through one of my choices/candidates: Drama. The drama genre delves into the emotion in humans. It explores a characters interpersonal situations and internal conflicts. It mainly aims to get an emotional response from the viewer. 

Common camera, angle, movement, and shot techniques used: 

  • Eye level shot: Allows for realism
  • Low angle shot: Conveys sense of power
  • Zoom: Intensifies the moment
  • Establishing shot
  • Medium shot: Keeps in touch with the character emotions while showing surroundings
  • Medium close-up: Emphasizes emotion 
  • Extreme close up: Conveys very strong emotion

Common costume, lighting, acting, makeup, prop, and set techniques used: 

  • Acting: Most important, actors have to be able to show emotion convincingly
  • Lighting: Can affect how a person's emotions are shown
  • Makeup: Can also convince an audience of the emotions

Common editing techniques used: 

  • Fade in 
  • Fade out
  • Shot/Reverse 

Common sound techniques used:

  • Sound motif
  • Dialogue ( for all genres by the way I forgot to include it )

Films in this genre: 

-Whiplash

-Creed

-Sound of Freedom

-The Equalizer 

My Thoughts

  • I really enjoy this genre. It's another genre that lasts with you for a long time. My favorite movie of all time actually falls under this genre, and it's Joker (2019). There are a lot of good movies in this genre because it relies a lot on a good acting performance. I love that aspect of it, getting an emotional response from the viewer. I would use this aspect in my project if I chose this genre. 
  • However, there is a complaint. Sound and editing techniques are also sort of lacking. The same problem happened in the psychological thriller genre, maybe because they're similar. Again, it might be a fault on my part where I didn't do enough research. But, if it comes out that I'm unable to find any sound or editing techniques, that would be unappealing. 

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