7e. My Film's Genre Conventions

My film, will be a Drama film involving a romance. I looked up the conventions of the Drama Convention.

• Real life situations
• Character's relationships develop throughout the film
• Realistic struggles
• Happy ending or form of realisation
• Characters must be relatable 
• The audience should be able to relate to the characters emotions
• Music is used to evoke strong emotions

I feel my film with fit with many of these conventions, such as, real life situations and realistic struggles. As the film is set in a school, and the main issue is getting involved with the group group of friends via peer pressure, this is something that many of our target audience , which is young people ages 15-30, will have witnessed happen or had happen to them at some point within their life. Our film will also have a happy ending as at the end of the film, Josh will end up with Amy, instead of the gang of boys.

There are also conventions that we will be able to add into our film during the production process. For example, the use of close ups and point of view shots will make Josh, the protagonist, relatable and the audience will be able to relate to Josh's emotions. Also, during editing our film we can add music over the top of scenes, when choosing this music, to make sure it fits in with the conventions of a Drama film, we will have to choose strong music that heightens the emotions of the characters.

I went on the website www.freemusicarchive.com and found this song which is an example of what I could add in to my film whist editing. It is upbeat and could be used to show a character's happiness, perhaps at the end of the film.