I started my search on wikipedia, simply searching drama film and teen drama and teen film. From this I was looking through the following three websites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film
The above website gave a clear definition of dram films that is "film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes". Continuing on from this it mentions some dramatic themes such as alcoholism and drug addiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_drama
From this website it quotes that teen drama is a "dramatic television series with major focus on teenage characters." This isn't extremely helpful to us as its talking more about television programmes then it is film. But it does allow us to kow that drama for teenagers to watch would possibly involve watching other teenages and people similar ages to them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_film
Accoriding to the site above, it gives the definition of a teen film as a film targetted at teenagers, where the plot is an interest of what teenagers want to watch. These types of films have typical codes and conventions such as "The Jock/Cheerleader, The Geek/Nerd and The New Girl/Boy". This can help us as in order to reach our target market we may need to think about adding some of these codes and conventions into our film.
http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/drama
I found the above website useful as it gave a clearer definition of the genre drama. It sums it up in a sentence that is "Drama film is a genre that relies on the emotional and relational development of realistic characters." From this we can aim to get our film to fit into that sentence as we are aiming to produce a drama film. However ours will interpret teenagers as it isn't just a drama, its a teen drama.
http://www.imdb.com/genre/drama
The link to IMDb gives a list of the most popular drama films at the moment. This list includes films such as The Hunger Games, Titanic, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Lucky One.
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