Short film genre research

I believe that our short film genre will be drama, bordering on psychological drama as it has some level of enigma as to what is happening the film. The drama genre is usually a piece that allows the audience to empathise and sympathise with the characters in the film. The audience may prefer one character over another, though this is common in a media piece, relating to characters usually makes people enjoy something more, finding themselves agreeing with what they're doing. Drama as a genre tries to keep the audiences attention by making them become emotionally attached to the characters within the film. Usually in drama genres, there is some kind of realisation at the end, in our film this would be Connor finding out that Lauren had written this in her diary and is all just a figment of her imagination. The storylines are also usually realistic, our film is very realistic as these type of things occur very frequently, unrequited love is something that the majority of people feel, be it for a musician or a peer.