Useful Resources:
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film
This link gives an overview of what the drama genre actually is about and what it includes. It says that it's mostly about the realistic characters and there emotional feelings and aspects when acting. It says it includes dramatic scenes involving alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and the personal conflict within the scene and between the characters. Drama can be also recognised as a sub genre for example hostorical drama, comedy drama and crime drama etc.
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drama_films
This is a link which gives a long list of drama films from the 1900's to todays current date.
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_drama
This link gives a good over view of teen drama in its realistic state. It looks at the types of teen dramas which have been produced in different countries also focusing on the casting and locations, but one main point that crops in on this link shows the history throughout the teen drama genre. It goes into great depth on how other genres contain teens to create a hybrid genre.
TV Drama Research:
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyoaks
HollyOaks- This is a teen TV drama which has been going since 1995 on channel 4 and is based around students and teenagers who live the steriotipical life of teenagers which is drinking, using drugs, fighting and conflict between other characters. As the main characters are teenagers the programme is focused on teen troubles as they are surounded by people who get in there way like parents and other people of there age. Most of the story lines are based upon serious realistic events which can happen in the real world. Over 50 percent of all the characters are classed as being young (youths) however older characters are added to the scenes to make it afluent for the drama and tension build so conflict eventually spread (they are like a spark).
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins_(TV_series)
Skins- This again is a teen drama which is the following of a set of teenagers who live in Bristol so its not only a teen drama its a English teen drama. Again the main points of drama are icluded to create conflict such as signs of homosexuality, narcissism, dysfunctional families, absent parents, personality disorders, post traumatic stress, substance abuse, anorexia, underage sex, teenage pregnancy, sexual abuse, autism, and death which are all social issues that occur in teenage life.
This link will take you to the guardian website (the film section) where there is a article wrote by Angela Jain. She tells us a little bit about various TV channel budgets however she gets onto the teen TV drama Skins and looks at the target audience by say giving various figures etc, the quote below shows exactly what she says
E4, meanwhile, has outgunned BBC3 despite a smaller budget. The teen drama Skins, a story of supercool Bristol college kids, is E4's most popular homegrown show to date, with a peak audience of 1.8 million, and it took home the audience prize, voted for by viewers, at this year's Bafta TV awards.
Skins, produced by Company Pictures, has been a hit with both critics and viewers and is also notable for championing a new generation of young scriptwriters and for its innovative use of the web.
The drama built a huge following online, premiering episodes on E4.com and MySpace. It also took big risks, dumping the entire cast between the second and third series. Jain described it as "completely channel-defining".
Film Teenage Drama Research:
•'Thirteen' plot Summary- This film is a very controversial drama as it is focused on a female character who is 13 years old called 'Tracy Freeland', she is the type of person who is not popular at school, she just likes to fit in, she is an A grade student and likes to be a sensible person (this could be seen as a steriotype of a geek), however this soon changes as she becomes friends with another 13 year old female character called 'Evie Zamora', she is the total opposite of 'Tracy' so this is seen as binary opposition, she likes to take drugs and steel, all she is interested in is boys and sex and likes to commit crimes like steeling but most off all she likes to look the best and she is the most popular girl in the school. As the two girls become best fiends 'Evie' leads 'Tracy' in the direction on her life and encourages her to stell, take drugs and have sex, so 'Tracy' is easily lead and becomes a totally different person not just in her personality but how she looks (mise-en-scene) as she starts to dress different and gets percings all over her body. This has a major affect on 'Tracy's' life as she has trouble with her family especially her mother as she thinks 'Evie' is a bad influence and has made her a bad person, 'Tracy' also losses her old friends and falls out with her teachers, however her mother finds it hard to save her.
•'Thirteen Key Points'-
•Its central protagonist characters are teenagers who live up to the steriotype of a teenager.
•There are no big star names involved.
•In some respects it shows the social realist aspect as this narrative can be true in certain teenagers lives.
•Thetitles used are black and white which signifies the documentary aspect as in a way t does show a documentary of part of a teenagers life and also it may signify a low budget.
•Drama and conflict is created in some different ways which again relates to teenagers exsperimenting with drugs and money etc. The conflict is drawn through by the drama of the drugs etc as there is tension between adult hood (parents) and the teenage life style.
•The editing is not fast all the way through however there are some points where fast pace editing is used which shows that it is for the younger audience.
•This film as it is a teenage drama there is the two sides to the females and males as part of the narrative is based on sexual relationships which is commonly used in any type of teenage texts.
•The development of the film takes you from a point of view of a real teenagers life giving the audience an experience but also distributing the fact that teenagers do the things they do for a reason.
•'Go'- This film is about a group of young adults (teenagers) who spend a long Christmas Eve togather which is set in eplayed three different times from three different views. So there are various characters who like to do a little drug dealing and like to purchase it themselves, however when a set of the friends seperate to buy some drugs they are actually being set up by there other friends whilst in LA the other set off friends are heading for a rave but unfortunatley on the way they hit the central protagonist 'Ronna' by the car and is killed.
•'Kidulthood'- This film is about a group of troubled teenegers who are growing up in West London and it is based around a party as the invitations are given out during school time and they are two seperate gangs in the film, however one of the main character finds out that his girl friend cheating on him with another boy from the other gang and eventually they meet and start insulting each other as well as one female character who is bullied as one of the boys from the gang wants to take unessicary pictures of her and she decides to commit sucide. Because of this the school gets a day off and there is a house party where all the central protagonists gather. The girl who commited suicide has a brother (the one who chaeting with the other male characters girlfriend) which he is beaten up as well as his mother, but eventually the bully is attacked by the boys sister with a base ball bat and kills him as well as other things are going wrong at the same time (like the gun shooting).
•This film has intertextual reference to our film in production because our film is also about two seperate people where a girl is trapped in the middle because of the relationship status but in the end it all ends up with a big dramatic scene of someone dieing all because off a girl.
•'The Breakfast Club'- This film again is a teen drama movie created by 'John Hughes' and its about five teenagers who unfortunatley have a weekend detention. There's a jock, a princess, a misfit, a nerd, and a lout, bu they dont have much in common at all. They are all sat in the library writing out essays, however when the teacher disappears they start arguing with each other and hate each other but then they start smoking cannabis and start having a heart to heart with each other explaining to each other about there different emotional feelings and they focus on how they dont want to make the same mistakes as adults in there lifes, so they ask the nerd to write a letter about there feelings and call themselve the 'Breakfast Club' and in the letter it describes the way in which the students have a different perspective after a day off school.
•'Rebel Without A Cause'- This is about a character who has just moved into town called 'Jim Stark', he has moved away from his family because of the trouble he has caused and searches for a more loving family. He meets two people, one who is a gay male character and the other a female character who likes him and also he gets caught up with some bad guys who persuade him to get involned in there "Chickier run", which involves driving cars towards the edge of a cliff. One male character accidently dies due to the silly driving, however this is the females boyfriend and Jim, the female, and gay male character have to hide in a big mansion from the police, but the other characetrs seem to think that Jim has set everyone up with the cops. Eventually the cops catch up with them and the gay male character is shot but is wearing Jims jacket and Jim's family thinks he is the one which has been shot, but then they see John upset in distort and his father comforts him and tells him he is going to be a better farther.
•This film has intertextual referenece with our film because the drama is created because of the cars which are driven in a dangerous drama where a relationship is involved at the same time and the same kind of emotions are given to the audience.
•'Quadrophenia'- This film is a classic teen drama with a character called 'Jimmy Cooper' and he finds out off an outlet with his friends. On a bank holiday there is a rivalry between two gangs who descend on the coast of Brighton. However there are some issues to do with riots and the main character meets with a girl and has sex with her in the alley way however the riot police catch them and fine hime £50. Jimmy goes back to London and his life starts to fall apart as his mother kicks him out as she finds pill in his room. He starts to fall out with his friends and has a fight and he then crashes his scoooter whilst he is pilled up and he takes a train to a now tranquil Brighton and relives the memories his holiday there and he steels a scooter an drives up to a place called beachy head and the film ends with him riding towards the edge of the cliff with a slow motion shot of the scooter and a figure which is jimmy falling to the ground. this has intertextual reference as the end is shown towards the begininig with Jimmy walking back from the cliff.
•'Some Kind Of Wonderful'- This agin is a teen drama about a tom boy called Watts and finds that she really likes her best friend and it becomes more of a serious relationship however the girl ex-boyfriend who is a higher class citizen living in the richer quater of town wants to get his girl back and trys to back at her but then she realises she has deep feeling for Watts too.
•'Pretty in Pink'- This film has a major intertextual reference with our film as this is based around teens where drama occurs, also it is based around a love triangle aspect as there is a central female character who is not so popular and one particular boy has a crush on her but she meets a popular guy who is rich. the is so much like our film as the girl is stuck inbetween two male characters which creates drama as the female character has to chose as the boy create the drama and conflict over her.
•'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'- This film is about a teenage boy who takes the day off school and decides to meet up with his friends however he stumbles across a slight problem as his friend persuades them to take his Dad's Ferrari out and pick another person out of school, however it anoys people around hime as they know he scives school and does things which he should'nt be doing at all, but in his parents eyes he is the perfect son.
•'Sixteen Candles'- This film also has some intertextual reference with my film as it is based around a relationship between two boys and one girl. Her sister is getting married in the film and her paerents forget about he 16th birthday and it takes you on a journey through a young womens life so in a way its like a documentary of her life which i found this out when exploring the codes and conventions of short film and dramas.
Useful Books:
•This book is really effect when wanting to look at a teenagers point of view.
•It has extensive coverage of "Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "and Australia's "Heartbreak High, and talks about how the genre makes an impact and how the dramas are constucted looking upon the views of teenagers themselves.
•Various questions are asked throughout this book looking into drama in detailed depth showing the different narratives constructed and how they interact with the audience.
•This book is about how you can get the best out of teen dramas looking at the casting, locations and camera angles etc.
•This also talks about how the audience is drawn into the type of genre of teen drama and what is needed to make the attraction for that all important target audience.
•This also not only talks about the exibition and distribution it also talks about the production showing examples on how to create a script looking for key individual points so overall this book is a good all rounder.
•This book is really good when studying the genre of drama as it is about the author 'Michael Goldman' who provides the role of drama.
•It says in this book the challenging views of the genre and how it has to make an experience towards the reader to make them feel that it is on going all the time.
•It also gives information to the reader by looking at the complexity of the genre which the author is trying to do.
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He is the author of a number of books, including "Acting and Action in Shakespearean Tragedy," "Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama," "Ibsen: The Dramaturgy of Fear," and "The Actor's Freedom: Toward a Theory of Drama,"
•This book is about teen dreams looking at different films by different director.
•Especially it look at the famous John Hughes and his films but also then looking into the hybrid genre of teen comedy and looking into the higher market like 'American Pie' and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'.
•it looks how teen films and TV series deal with the tragic and comic undersides of the American dream.
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