Codes and conventions of an romance genre:
- Aimed at female audience as
they can relate more and express emotions
- 12 – 15 certificate to
maximise the audience
- A typical romance genre
would include sexuality, status, gender and relationships.
- Narrative: falling in love,
dating, kissing
- Often a voiceover is used to
introduce the love theme
- Main characters are
introduced – attractive female and male
- The setting is normally in
an urban environment, a beach, a school etc, places where a chance
encounter would happen.
- When a romance film opens,
it is likely that much of the setting will be shown to the audience from
the use of establishing shots and wide shots showing characters and much
of the setting and area behind them.
Cliches:
- Boy meets girl, boy loses
girl, boy finds girl
- Female lead ends up with
wrong boy
- Prince Charming exists -
unrealistic features
- Bride/groom get ditched at
altar
- Pushy but lovable
mother
- Male lead has a best friend
that is a lovable slob
- Misfortunes can bring people
together e.g. car crashes, sudden divorce
- Major scene at airport or
taxicab where boy realises he loves the girl and tries not to lose
her
- Faithful sidekick who
secretly worships the male lead from afar
- The fat, mouthy but
supportive girlfriend
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