Genre - Social Drama

Social Drama is one of the genres that my short film will be based upon. The social drama genre is about questioning the morality of situations and societies that can be found throughout humanities existence. It conveys issues that individuals can face as well as problems facing humanity. The key factor of a film of the social drama, is dealing with features of humanity that can be difficult to portray to an audience or are relevant to humanity as a whole. Social Drama films often use creative methods to reinforce and portray the message to the audience. An example of the content used in social drama, would be issues such as poverty, consumerism and death. The idea of these films is to convey other interpretations and idea's about these situations to the audience. Films of the Social Drama genre often try to demonstrate a cure to what is shown. It may have a negative or positive portrayal of the social concept of the film. Social Drama's often feature in other sub genre's such as medical drama's and political drama's.

The social drama genre is relevant to my short film idea because of the theme and content I plan to use. The basic outline of my film is about the idea of decisions. Within my short film the decision is about the life of one of two characters. The main character can only save one of them and the decision has to be made about whether it should be made for the benefits of society or for personal reasons, because they love the second character. Even though this decision is the extreme, it links back to the basic and often difficult decisions that everyday people have to make in real life. It connotes to the audience, that the message of the film is about the variety of choices that need to be made and that coming to the right conclusion isn't always quick and simple.