Drama

By: Khiara, Luisa, Katherine, & Shenica

Common Lighting

• Natural Lighting
• Lowkey lighting
• Mid key lighting
• Bottom lighting

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Common Camera Angles and Shots

• Eye level
• High angle
• Canted
• Establishing Shots
• Medium Close Up
• Close Up
• Over the Shoulder shot
• Long shot

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• Wide shot
• Two/Three person shot
• Trunk shot

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Common Camera Movements

• Pan
• Flash Pan
• Tracking shot
• Zoom
• Tilt

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Common Mis En Scene

Usually in drama films, such things like props, locations, make up, costume designs and lighting designs are based off of real life.

Locations

• Schools, Hospitals, Small Towns, Malls

Costumes/Make Up

• Based off of setting

Genre Elements

Character: Protagonist, antagonist and secondary characters

Plot: “Freytag’s Pyramid” (Introduction, rise, climax, falling action, denouement)

Music: Helps the story flow and is effective on the audience.

• Ex. I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston (The BodyGuard)

Setting: The time and place where the film is set effects how the personalities of the characters

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Drama Films

Bohemian Rhapsody

12 Years a Slave

Moonlight

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Titanic

Common Sounds

• Exaggerated breathing or sighing
• Body sounds (ex: stomping, dragging feet)
• Dialogue/Voiceovers
• Ex: “My heart will go on” - Celine Dion in Titanic,

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• Flash Pan
• Tracking shot
• Zoom
• Tilt

Elements That Appeal

• In drama films plots tend to be relatable.
• The soundtrack because it pulls us into the film and sets the mood.
• Characters in drama films are always intriguing and interesting.

Elements That Don’t Appeal

• Sometimes in drama films plots can be too complex.
• They can be too dramatic.
• Although drama relates to real life in most cases, it can stray away from reality.

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