2. What does romantic genres consist of? Romantic films, love stories, or affairs, emotion, affectionate involvement of the main characters usually a leading man and lady, and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot. The most successful romantic film is the 1997 blockbuster, Titanic which grossed over $600 million domestically and $1.8 billion worldwide. The narrative of a Romaic film would normally be a love story or love triangles, it would also include romantic scenes such as beaches and cities. They also include holidays with each other such as honeymoons or engagement and marriage. In each romantic film there is normally a protective father or an evil mother sometimes even both. The main ideas of a Romaic film would be falling in love, some kind of arguments, dates, gifts and soft music. The two most famous romantic films are Titanic and Romeo and Juliet, they are both very traditional romantic films. This is because they both include the protective father of the girl, falling in love, arguments and family rivals. Iconography is used within films such as romantic films this is to tell the audience from the fist scene that it is a romantic movie, the key things you see would be the man and women meeting or seeing each other somewhere. Also you would see them on a date or being reunited.
3. What type of audience would watch a romantic genre? The audience that would watch romantic films would mainly be people that like to relate to that particular genre of film, this could be young teenagers or just women in general. This is because romantic films tend to be watched more by girls/ women as they find the idea of the narrative romantic, also the audience are drawn to the film because of the actors staring in the film. People sometimes watch a film because they have seen other films with the actors staring in them which draws them to other films they are in.
5. Conventions I plan to use One of the conventions from the romantic genre would be the meetings/ dates of the men and women. Also the “ love triangles” in which the couple have problems which involve other people. Another convention I plan to use is the arguments that you would see in a romantic film. I also plan to use romantic scenes to draw the audiences attention to the genre. In ever romantic film you see an exchange of gifts to either show their feelings or to say sorry to another, I want to use this idea to show that they each have strong feelings towards the other. The song that I have chosen fit in well with the soft music you hear in a romantic film, this will add the feeling of romance to the audience.
