My Genre

The genre of my short film 'Nina' is drama. It is drama because it is about an emotional journey of a young girl that consists of flashbacks of abuse and bullying with a dramatic plot twist at the end. Although, throughout the short film it consists of dramatic moments of human conflict through the use dialogue and action drawing in the audience. My short film starts off with a girl in her late teens (Nina) showing her as she walks into a counselors office. The counselor asks her numerous questions but gets no hope in reply from Nina, when suddenly a question asked by the counselor triggers remembrances of her past leading into a flashback. The flashback starts with Nina at the age of 6 walking along a street in her school uniform, we hear a voice over of her voice, suddenly we get a happy flashback of her playing with her friends. In goes back to Nina walking along the street again but slightly older, there is another voice over that again leads into a flashback but this time her friends are longer friends and are picking on her and walking away. Again, it goes back to Nina walking along the street but older to emphasise how monotonous life is, we hear yet again another voice over using bigger words to portray her maturity. For the last time we see another flash back but this time it is more aggressive and we see her mum abusing and shouting at her, Towards the end it is set at present and we are back in the counselors office and the counselor asks for the final time what her name is, she responds with 'Nina" and then we establish that the counselor was once the bully who gave Nina misery. Overall, we can see that my genre is more of a tragedy if you condensed down the genre of drama, tragedy is brought upon us by the emotional journey of Nina and the human conflict and as it is a drama the audience can sympathise with the characters/character.