Agustina Writes

Drama

Hot sitting, role on the wall, and still images are examples of conventions. Lighting, conversation, monologue, scenery, costuming, and entrances/exits are examples of technical norms. Split focus, flashback and flashforward, narration and articulated thought are examples of dramatic conventions.

-Slow motion video

-A monologue (a solo speech by an actor that gives an insight into what they are thinking)

-Using a 'aside' to add narration (when a character directly addresses the audience to comment within a scene)

-Bursting out into song (as in Musical theatre)

-Using a chorus to make a statement about the action

-Dividing the stage into multiple sections to symbolize various regions

-Placards (signs) are used to provide extra information to the audience.

-Use music to enhance the drama in a split role or multi-role situation.

Public relations plays an important role in theatrical marketing. A theater company with a good reputation and positive reviews has an easier job obtaining funds and selling tickets to the general public. For example, You may be a spokesman for a kids theater organization or a fundraiser

Film example #1-Will Smith plays Chris Gardner, a homeless salesperson, in Gabriele Muccino's 2006 American historical drama film The Pursuit of Happyness. Jaden Smith, Smith's son, co-stars in the film as Christopher Jr., Gardner's son. Gardner's story is based on his roughly one-year experience as a homeless person. Gardner sees a mural on the wall outside the daycare center where his son attended, which inspired the unique spelling of the film's title. His film depicts Chris Gardner's struggles in attempting to provide a good life for himself and his child. Survival, determination, and never giving up on your aspirations are the primary themes of this film. Therefore convicting a dramatic yet subtle theme.

Film sample #2 -TitanicThe way filmmaker James Cameron integrates the real Titanic, in its watery burial, with his fictional plot is one of the film's most powerful elements.The effect of the opening shot from the bottom of the Atlantic gives the film weight and heaviness. Standing in front of an actual ship that sank and feel like invaders in its solitude. The solemnity of those scenes adds legitimacy to all that follows; in a special effects-heavy film, Cameron begins with the ultimate reality of the Titanic. Therefore its dramatic and potential scenes embody what the genre itself; drama is all about.