My work on how "Live For The Weekend" conforms to the "Drama" Genre:
Our film is a "Drama". This means it should exhibit a real-life situation with realistic characters which we see develop throughout the film.
The Protagonist "Chloe" is a school girl that is bored of her studies and just wants to have fun with her friends. As the film continues we see her developing into someone who no longer cares, she starts to take risks with drugs - this storyline follows the main conventions that make up a 'Drama' film.
"Drama" films should also involve some social interaction, have some conflict and a storyline which plays on the emotion of the viewer. Our character meets her friends on multiple occasions and is often offered drugs from the boys. Initially, she and Nikki are against this, however, the boys win over Chloe. This is something that eventually leads to her death and the close of the film.
The film also uses some technical conventions that are common in "drama films" - handheld camera work is used in multiple scenes to create a sense of realism - that we as the viewer were just following someone around the 'real life'.
Often, "Drama" films can be cross-genre. Meaning they conform to more than one genre. Our film could be described as a Tragedy, as 'many horrible events' do occur to our protagonist.
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