By Annie Tagoe

DEFINITION OF DRAMA

GENRE

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic

characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug

addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against

women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and

even natural phenomena. Drama is the most broad of movies genres and includes

subgenres as romantic drama, sport films, period drama, courtroom drama and crime.

Director: Tyler Perry

Released date: 11th September

2009

Distributing date: Lionsgate

I can do bad all by myself

Plot• Medea catches a 16 year old girl Jennifer and her two brothers robbing her home

• She decides to take matters into her own hands and deliver the young kids to their

only relative.

• April is the aunt of these kids

• She’s a heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off Raymond, her married boyfriend.

• April wants nothing to do with the kids but her attitude changes when Sandino, a

handsome Columbian immigrant looking for work move into April’s basement room

• Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the

biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Raymond and the new

possibilities of family, faith ... and even true love

Conventions in genre

Young attractive women Thug Vulnerable female

Love Poor/ medium class workers Children

Emotions Death

Care Family

Neglected Confused

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUvBCW-tS4

Still photographs

• It’s a full angle shoot so

you can see everyone

on the table.

• Characters look hungry

and neglected from a

poor background.

• The thug

• Controls his

girlfriend and the

children

• One of the kids

• Upsets about none looking

after her and her brothers.

• Main character looks after

the kids

• Works in a night club

• The children • Love and emotions

Director: Steven Spielberg

Release date: December

18th, 1995

Plot • The colour purple followers the like of Celie Johnson as she struggles through life in

the early 1990s.

• The film begins with Celie about 17 years old, giving birth to her 2nd child, sired by

her father

• Her father takes the second child away from her and tells her never to tell anyone

about it.

• a rich farmer comes by to marry Celie's younger, prettier sister, Nettie. Her father

refuses to let Nettie marry and gives the man Celie instead.

• The movie culminates in Celie leaving Mister with the threat that everything he

touches will fall apart until he does right by her. Mister finds compassion and goes to

the INS to help Celie's sister Nettie prove that she is a US citizen and return from

Africa where she has been living with Celie's two children who had been given to a

missionary and his wife. Celie is reunited with Nettie and her two children in a

heartfelt ending to an extraordinary film.

Children Faith Rape

Emotions Poor and rich working family Vulnerable females

Happiness

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d83NnlL83mc

They all play main characters in this movie

The least favourite

daughter that got

raped

the favourite daughter The mum who gets abuse

by the dad The dad who sells the least

favourite daughter