Drama Genre

Drama.

Yea, sure! we've all heard of the word drama before whether it's to describe a person like "Dramatic" or "Drama Queen" as well as drama in theaters or movies. We have always correlated drama to some sort of constant conflict involving humans and real-life situations. When it comes to cinematography,  Drama film is a genre that relies on the emotional and relational development of realistic characters. While Drama film relies heavily on this kind of development, dramatic themes play a large role in the plot as well. Often, these dramatic themes are taken from intense, real-life issues.




In the United States, the most popular television programs are by far those within the drama category. A 2017 study showed that 33 percent of primetime TV programs were drama shows, almost double the share of comedy or reality programs. 




Target Audience: Coming of age films usually target audiences in their teenage years a range between 13-18 since it's an audience that will most likely relate to the content or plot of the movie. In some films, there might be an inclusion revolving more explicit and controversial themes for older audiences 

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MEGA PLOT TWIST... RESTART!!

Okay so, after talking and hearing Ms. Stoklosa's ideas at our sit-down talk, I noticed that we were really trying to frame or make-up a story that was "deep" and "profound" yet it had no true meaning and it wasn't significant for us. She made me realize that truly nor me and my partner are dark people I guess you can say we're more social, extroverted and bubbly. We are more genuine and just simple. We were just wasting too much time trying to find a deeper meaning to our opening film.

After a whole mental breakdown in a span of 30 minutes, we decided to do...
A coming of age teenage drama!!



We thought this genre served greater purpose in fitting what we like and what we do on a daily basis. We are now starting to research and dig deep into the genre of it as well as the target audiences and rates for the most known drama films. Simple and genuine is now what we are looking for. I believe we also find greater interest in filming a story where both my partner and I can somehow relate to the plot if it.

Brainstorming on Storyboard.

Brainstorming on Storyboard.

For our opening film, we were inspired by the opening scene of the film Se7en. We won't follow a similar structure where a series of close-up shots, a dark color scheme is used, as well as fast editing. Plus a great usage of sound to intensify and create that sense of suspense to our audiences as they are watching it.

https://images.app.goo.gl/ropEZKhznMXRXQ9WA

We plan on also rearranging the font size as well as the look of it to fit better the genre of the opening film. We thought of incorporating close-up shots of our character's journal and notebook. since our psychopath also has symptoms of OCD we thought that we would represent this as a fast close-up shot of his journal where he writes every step and move he does towards the murder of this woman or men.















We also wanted to incorporate the usage of close-up shots of his facial characteristics like his eyes, lips, cheeks, and hands to slowly reveal the face of the character. This way audiences will be eager to put recognize and know what the psychopath looks like.

Background Info About Characters

Little background info about characters.

We thought it would be a great idea to incorporate two main characters in this film, a female and a male. Not fully concluded, we still are thinking about which character will be the victim and the other the suspect, we are still trying to expand our research on representation and making sure our film is more unique and different than the rest.

For the male character, we imagined him to be tall, around 6'1. He would have brown hair as well as dark brown eyes. He would have some facial hair scattered all over to show that he is still young enough. When it comes to the costume design of it, we decided to maintain a very similar costume and apparel for this character which would be a casual outfit that consists of a black shirt with a jacket and blue jeans to maintain a regular style.




For the female character, whose name is undefined at the moment, we decided to make her a light-skin blonde, with either brown or blue eyes. We wanted to make her height pretty much average which is around 5'6. The way she dresses will depend on the role she will be playing, if she's the victim the costume design will fit her outfit to be more scandalous and well as her personality as a way to attract the psychopath. On the other way around, if she takes the role of the psychopath than she will wear attires that seem more conservative and introverted.

Research Week

Research Week. 

Before we started planning anything, I wanted to make sure there was a complete plot in the story, not only a storyboard that was fust fine for the opening film. We finally decided that we wanted to base our plot on an individual who suffers from psychotic disorders more specifically being a psychopath and having OCD. 
Previous from this project I never really had much knowledge or interest about the different and most rare mental disorders from which people suffer from, I decided to dig into some research to get to know my character a little better!
 Several different options we had in mind were:

Schizophrenia: are characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behaviour. Common psychotic experiences include hallucinations (hearing, seeing or feeling things that are not there) and delusions (fixed false beliefs or suspicions that are firmly held even when there is evidence to the contrary).

Dissociative Identity Disorder: (DID) people who suffer from DID often have 2-3 different identities (and sometimes more). Sufferers routinely cycle through their personalities, and can remain as one identity for hours or for years. 

Psychopath: a person suffering from a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.

OCD:by immense fear, anxiety, and recurring thoughts of worry. It’s only through the repetition of tasks, including the well-known obsession with cleanliness, that sufferers of OCD are able to find relief from such overwhelming feelings.  

After all options we decided it was best to make a combinated distorted with shred symptoms of a psychopath and the OCD disorder since we thought it was best to fit with the plot of our story and it would be more intriguing than the usual thriller films. 

References.

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/ss/slideshow-types-of-psychotic-disorders

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-disorders

https://www.onlinepsychologydegree.info/terrifying-mental-disorders/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mental-illness-and-violence

Genre Is chosen

Portfolio Analysis.

Genre is chosen.

After days of brainstorming with my partner Luis, we finally concluded that the genre of thriller is one we are going for. For this project, we wanted to do something that we enjoy watching and from our own experience, we thought that thriller was the best way to go.
When it comes to the genre, thriller if often known for having numerous subcategories of genres. It's primary features root from giving a sense of excitement, anxiety, tension and suspense to audiences, it's basically media that "thrills" audiences and my partner and I are big fans of that sense and feeling when we are watching something. They generally keep audiences "at the edge of their seats".
Some of the best thriller films of all time made by Alfred Hitchcock such as Psycho(1960) and Frenzy (1972). As well as "Get Out" (2017). All of these films earned more than $10 million as their overall profit.
 


My teammates and I understand that our target audience for these kinds of films must be older than 18 years of age to fully understand and watch the film without consequently affecting the life of the audience in a negative way. This is due to the violent and disturbing content that might appear in these films that ould lead to psychological issues for the audiences.  In the graph below you are able to see great statistics about the target audiences that usually watch thriller films 36% of audiences being between the ages of 15-26.

Genre Of Portfolio

GENRE OF PORTFOLIO EX.

After I conducted research about my genre chosen "thriller" I've sought for film opening that has inspired me and given me ideas of how to direct and film such a project and I believe I have found the perfect examples that will be displayed below.

The first one was the film  Se7en (1995). The camera and editing techniques used for the opening scene of this film really amazed me. The fact that it was so different and how it wasn't a typical opening scene that automatically starts introducing the setting or character of the movie. This one leaves the audiences at the edge of the seat as the combination of fast editing, sound effects and content portrayed make one eager to know what it's all about. Worldwide Se7en made over $100 million profit.

   https://youtu.be/-BJkDyCdw0c


For the second opening film, I chose the Joker (2019). I can't quite grasp the reasoning of how the opening scene made me feel something about the character in two minutes with just watching the opening film. The spontaneous introduction to the character without having any dialogue whatsoever really influenced me as an audience. This is something that I really look up to since the point of these kinds of the movie is to make the audiences feel show emotions towards the character or content of the film. The usage of color and music completely changed the perspective of the scene. Joker has grossed over $1 billion, and it's the first thriller movie to do such a thing in 2019.

  https://youtu.be/ykAHr1DcQMI



Another great example I felt inspired by was the opening scene of Psycho (1960). This is a great example of the development of the opening film by depicting and establishing the setting of the plot. The combination and usage of long and establishing shots to determine the setting of the film really gave audiences a sense of what could happen depending on the setting or location the movie was going to take place. In addition to the setting, the incorporation of loud and suspenseful music for the first 30 seconds of the opening scene also gives a taste to audiences of what the movie really is going to develop into.

 https://youtu.be/1nf3D0AGZkU

Ana Jurado. 

Music Marketing Project. 

For my music marketing project, my teammates and I decided to go with the genre of Pop. Currently, this genre is one of the most popular ones in the industry and tends to appeal to younger audiences which was our target audience. The genre pop is heard by many teenagers and individuals in their early 20s. 

Current marketing trends withing our genre usually regard the world of online media where most of our audience is consumed by it.  We came to the conclusion that our heavy marketing will rely on the most famous media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Youtube. Instagram users mostly vary from ages 18-29, Snapchat from 18-24 as well as Youtube who has over 2 billion users that stream videos every single month. We came to the conclusion that our most effective and efficient way to gain audience was through the usage of social media by uploading teasers and advertising our content such as our music as well as ou events and merchandise. From our study cases and research made along the course of this project, famous and well-known artists such as Kiara and SIA use social media and online platforms to market their content. Both artists have a website where they are able to expose their newest production and music videos as well as availability to their merchandise and products. When it comes to soal media, they both use Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube to promote their newest content as they post teasers and mini videos to keep their audiences intrigued and interested. 

When it comes to the development of our artist's brand, we tried our creative glasses on, and we came up with the idea of our artist coming from a nationally televised show "The Voice" where she wins the 18th season and automatically gains fans throughout her journey as a contestant. our main goal was not to grow but to maintain the loyalty within the fans and to continue growing a more personal a close relationship between our artist and her fans. We tried to make our artist (Liliana Reed) somehow peculiar and distinctive than other artists in the industry as she freely chooses to demonstrate and reflect her opinion on controversial topics and the well-being of the world through her music. 

The marketing products that we created were a few, mostly merchandise that was available for purchase on our website. We created sweatpants, hoodies, sweatshirts, pop-sockets and iPhone cases. we decide toed to vary our selection due to the different perspectives and considering the amount of money that our fans were willing to invest in the artists. We thought that the pop-sockets and the iPhone cases might be a more effective and economical way to expand and increase the name of her brand since it was more economic, now when it comes to the clothing we made it preferably to the fans that might seem devoted or very interested in the artist. The purpose behind it was to find a way for our fans to represent and brand our artist in a similar that we are already doing, some exam[les of the merchandise were: 

When it comes to the lessons learned, thanks to my teacher I realized that one can always do better and reach for greater creativity. Even though my project wasn't one that stood out the most, I learned that next time I have to think out the box and reach for greater creativity. One shouldn't be allowed to retrain themselves due to not fear, sometimes you just have to take risks and hope for the best. Now when it comes to the actual marketing and campaign of the music industry, there is so much more than just the artist itself. Managers and directors have to think and analyze every step through the production of products and content and now I understand that really, everything relies on the audiences that consume such media because of were the ones that make each artist famous whether we like or are interested in the content that rach artist releases. Eery decision made relies on the question as to whether audiences will like and benefit from it