My Chosen Genre

For my production I have decided to create a Drama based film on Dramatic poetry (Spoken Words)
A spoken word is a literary and performance art in which lyrics, poetry, sketches or stories are spoken instead of sung.
The spoken word genre can be used to recognize by any word-based performance that takes on such forms that include features such as: poetry reading, storytelling, sound-emphasis poetry etc. The spoken word group is usually characterized by coffeehouse performances, improvisation, and liberal themes. These are usually performed by poets, actors, musicians, prose writers, commentators, and in some cases comedians.

Dramatic Poetry is a form of writing that expresses emotional feelings and attitude. It includes elements that very much relate to drama, this is because it is written in a dramatic form and can sometimes uses dramatic techniques. However in some cases it could also be a story, but in this case there is more weight on the character than on the narrative. An example of this type of writing is in some of Shakespeare's plays.
There are three different forms of Dramatic poetry, and they include:

• Dramatic monologue
• Soliloquy
• Character sketch

My main focus for my production would be the ‘Dramatic Monologue’, this is because it follows through and it entails everything I want my production to be about.

Dramatic monologueThis is a combination of drama and poetry. The character is presented to be in a specific situation in an important moment. The speaker is addressing one or more persons, the speaker’s personality/character is shown through the way he/she communicates with others and attitude towards life. A dramatic monologue is written to reveal both the situation at hand and the character as an individual.
Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson wrote some of the most well known dramatic monologues.

Drama convention includes features such as:

• Exhibiting real life situations with realist characters and settings.
• They keep the audience interested and get their attention emotionally. They do this by structuring it with climaxes.
• The centre attention of the drama is the conflict between the characters. The conflict could include: inner/outer realistic struggles, where the character has to deal with depicting hardship, difficulty and in some cases pain.