Week One: Research and Planning

Genre: The genre I have chosen for my portfolio project as you guys would know if you had read my previous postings, is drama. Drama films consist of serious stories with real life situations and also have realistic characters in conflicts with either themselves, others, or forces of nature. This type of genre relies on the emotional and relational development of the characters within the film. Drama films aim to tell an honest story of human struggles.

Characters: Within this type of genre, characters play an important role in the drams whether it is a major or minor one. Realistic characters are used in order for the viewers/audience to really grab a greater gist and feel a connection to the film. They often find themselves relating the film due to the realistic and the situations they are put in.

Plot Aspects: Dramatic themes often include current issues, societal ills, and problems, concerns or injustices, such as racial prejudice, religious intolerance (such as anti-Semitism), drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness, corrupt societal institutions, violence toward women or other explosive issues of the times.