Drama -Genre Research

The genre of drama, the purpose of a dramatic storyline is to move the audience emotional. These films strongly depend on the development of realistic characters encountering their emotions and their issues. Drama films usually concentrate on the main character him/her/itself as they are facing their issues emotional. The on-screen actors encounter a different role in which other genres wouldn’t allow them to do; due to the build of character throughout the plot as the character dramatically change, engaging with the audience.
The characteristics of dramatic films contain many factors: they portray a character's journey and developments, exhibits real life characters, situations, settings and stories, involves intense social interaction, dramatic sound, and exaggerated performance. The genre of drama can also become of a hybrid, for example, dramatic comedy,a dramatic film that uses an equal, or nearly equal balance of humour and serious content. Although the two genres seem completely different, it comes together as a pretty popular hybrid. A popular movie such as Love Actually is an example of the dramatic comedy genre.In the film,Love Actually, contains nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love.The plot is a mixture of laughter and tears.

From this, I realize that not only the story has to be relatable but it also has to contain some realistic features of emotions to fully engage the audience.

Comedy-Genre Research

The extremely successful type of Comedy utilizes laughter to pick up a great deal of enthusiasm by gaining the interest of audiences around the globe, the fundamental accentuation being put on making audiences laugh these movies are intended to engage the crowd through entertainment. Comedies regularly work with misrepresenting qualities of genuine for diverting impact. Movies in this specific style regularly have an upbeat completion making the audience leave feeling cheerful and happy. Comedy is one of the most seasoned classes in film, a portion of the absolute first quiet motion pictures were comedies, as slapstick comedy regularly relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound.
Comedy is a genre which can be made into a hybrid which is a mix of two different genres to make another kind. For instance, Rom-Com is a mix of romance with an amusing turn; this is one of the most popular hybrid genres. For example, American Pie which has a plot of youthful college boys who experience adventures together, it likewise has traditions of the 'Teenager Comedy' as it additionally demonstrates the life of teenage boys and how they seek after their fantasy to engage in sexual relations with a female. This has lead me to realize that comedy isn't just anything that is amusing, but it would have to be either relatable or understandable to the audience to even be considered "funny".Factors such as teenage life, college life, puberty, relationships and etc. have commonly been incorporated into the main theme of comedy.



The type of comedy will determine the audience as the comedy genre itself has a wide target audience, for example, black comedy would be aimed at 18+ as there would be explicit scenes with curse words or sexual reference. Moreover, slapstick comedies such as Home Alone would be targeted at young children aged between 6-13 years old. In Home Alone, violent scenes are embedded with amusement for the engagement of younger audiences as they could RELATE to seeing someone their age battling 'bad guys' making them yearn to watch it more. The relatable factor of comedy is what maintains and satisfy the audience keeping their attention to the movie intact.