Identifying My Genre

Drama is a film genre that depends mostly on an in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.It is basically a genre whereby the content of a certain movie or film revolves around a real life tragedy or a real-life social, religious or political problem. For example, I watched 'The Vow' which is a romantic drama whereby the main lead (female) faces memory loss and is unable to recover, however her husband (male lead) is wholly persistent that she try, until both just give up and let nature take its course. Now, hereby the film revolves around a tragic event and how its effects are overcome.

The genre 'drama' is further categorised into various sub-genres. For example a movie might be a romantic drama,for example 'dear john' or a docudrama, for example 'the blind side' which is an enactment of a historical aspect of life  i.e. racism.

Some of the very prominent sub-genres of drama are:

Docudrama 

Comedy-drama

Romance

Tragedy
Urban drama

Now, urban drama is a sub-genre of drama that takes a more socially realist stance on the traditional drama genre. These dramas represent the city or the environment as a character that influences the protagonist to a certain extent. This genre, studies and depicts the effects of multiculturism, racism, poverty, over-population, corruption, e.t.c. on the central character i.e. the city/environment.
I have identified my genre as an urban drama because it is basically focusing on the various problems faced by Pakistan and how amidst these problems, people are still living happily and in constrained peace. I would have chosen romance drama or a docudrama maybe, however, I chose urban drama over all of these because it is a very common scenario that I can actually relate to and it is an everyday exposure that I gain throughout my life in Pakistan.
This is an example of an urban drama short film shot in Pakistan, my country of origin. It identifies the problem of floods damaging a certain part of Pakistan and how a very young child of only 12 years is  suffering through this catastrophe with alot of difficulty.

While this short film focuses on only one of the problems affecting Pakistan, our short film will be focusing on various problems that Pakistan is facing every day.