P3: The genre 'Drama' and its conventions linking to my series

Drama is the most broad of cinema's genres and has many subgenres such as as romantic drama, period drama, courtroom drama, and adventure drama. A drama usually consists of a character or characters who are in conflict at a crucial moment in their lives. Often revolving around families, series like Luther get the audience to ask big questions and touch on their deepest emotions. Dramas often have tragic or at least painful resolutions and concern the survival of some tragic crisis, like the death of a family member or a divorce or kidnap. A lot of great screen performances come from dramas, as there is large opportunity for actors to stretch into a role that most other genres can't allow as it looks into a realism of life and serious lens on situations. 

Conventions of a Drama linking to my series Pigeon Hunt:

-They are serious representations of life and show emotions of situations at a height 'dramatizing' them to make them real as well as watchable for an audience. Within my series I follow the real lives of three teens and the dramatic events that come out of the norm. 

In terms of the plot of a drama they are real with heightened emotions. It has a protagonist that is easy to relate to, and follow them on their journey of sorts that includes a plot twist with emotional peaks. My series follows the journey of Matthew, a shy, introverted teen who enjoys the outdoors and how he is faced with a murder of his best friend were ultimately the blame lands on him. As a character he is relatable to the teenage target audience I want to attract. We go through emotional peaks from the murder, the murderer discovery and then Matthew dangerous journey to escape from police. This links well to a typical drama's protagonist having to go through an emotional journey being particularly unstable and venerable. He is faced with hard decisions and we as an audience find it easy to sympathise with him and have a lot in common with.  

Other traits of drama's find to challenge the ignorance of stereotypes. In my own series, it is Matthew who challenges Matilda when he finds she murdered their friend. Her stereotype incudes being strange, opinionated and psychotic. Drama's often connect to an audience on a therapeutic and complex level. This could be seen in my own piece to be with Matthew's love of nature and the outdoors and the freedom he gains from it.