1. By Annie Tagoe

2. DEFINITION OF DRAMA
GENRE
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic
characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug
addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against
women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and
even natural phenomena. Drama is the most broad of movies genres and includes
subgenres as romantic drama, sport films, period drama, courtroom drama and crime.

3. I can do bad all by myself
Director: Tyler Perry
Distributing date: Lionsgate
Released date: 11th September
2009

4. Plot
• Medea catches a 16 year old girl Jennifer and her two brothers robbing her home
• She decides to take matters into her own hands and deliver the young kids to their
only relative.
• April is the aunt of these kids
• She’s a heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off Raymond, her married boyfriend.
• April wants nothing to do with the kids but her attitude changes when Sandino, a
handsome Columbian immigrant looking for work move into April’s basement room
• Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the
biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Raymond and the new
possibilities of family, faith ... and even true love

5. Young attractive women Thug Vulnerable female
Care Family
Death Conventions in genre Emotions
Neglected Confused
Love Poor/ medium class workers Children

6. Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUvBCW-tS4

7. Still photographs
• It’s a full angle shoot so • The thug • One of the kids
you can see everyone
on the table. • Controls his • Upsets about none looking
girlfriend and the after her and her brothers.
• Characters look hungry children
and neglected from a
poor background.

8. • The children • Love and emotions
• Main character looks after
the kids
• Works in a night club

9. Director: Steven Spielberg
Release date: December
18th, 1995

10. Plot
• The colour purple followers the like of Celie Johnson as she struggles through life in
the early 1990s.
• The film begins with Celie about 17 years old, giving birth to her 2nd child, sired by
her father
• Her father takes the second child away from her and tells her never to tell anyone
about it.
• a rich farmer comes by to marry Celie's younger, prettier sister, Nettie. Her father
refuses to let Nettie marry and gives the man Celie instead.
• The movie culminates in Celie leaving Mister with the threat that everything he
touches will fall apart until he does right by her. Mister finds compassion and goes to
the INS to help Celie's sister Nettie prove that she is a US citizen and return from
Africa where she has been living with Celie's two children who had been given to a
missionary and his wife. Celie is reunited with Nettie and her two children in a
heartfelt ending to an extraordinary film.

11. Happiness
Children Faith Rape
Emotions Poor and rich working family Vulnerable females

12. Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d83NnlL83mc

13. They all play main characters in this movie
The mum who gets abuse the favourite daughter The least favourite
by the dad The dad who sells the least daughter that got
favourite daughter raped