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An example of a comedy would be William Shakespeare 's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, or for a more modern example the skits from Saturday Night Live. [2] [3] Farce [ edit] Main article: Farce A generally nonsensical genre of play, farces are often acted and often involve humor.

"Drama" in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example, Zola's Thérèse Raquin ( 1873) or Chekhov's Ivanov ( 1887 ). It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies, adopted to describe "drama" as a genre within their respective media.

Some examples of registerable material include scripts, treatments, synopses, and outlines... The WGAW Registry also accepts stageplays, novels, books, short stories, poems, commercials, lyrics, drawings, music and various media work such as Web series, code, and other digital content.

Example of a page from a screenplay formatted for a feature-length film. Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is often a freelance profession.

Examples include: Metropolis (1927), Planet of the Apes (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Children of Men (2006), and Arrival (2016). Sports drama [ edit] Further information: Sports film Obviously, in the sports super-genre, characters will be playing sports.