Our media product challenges the conventions of the romance genre by featuring a female character who is not obsessed with love after having bad relationship experiences. Typical romance genre signifiers like flowers and love letters are used to connect the product to the genre, allowing audiences to easily identify it as a romance based on recognizable genre signifiers. The product examines common romance genre tropes.

2. CHALLENGES
Our media product challenges the forms and conventions of a real media product as
it isn’t typical of the romance/romcom genre where the girl is obsessed with
finding love and the idea of love, whereas our character is the complete opposite
she has had bad experiences with love.

3. USES
The use of romantic objects such as flowers and love cards/letters are used to
conform to the typical romance genre more directly. We looked into typical genre
signifiers. This would allow the audience to automatically connect with the film
because romance is well known genre with well known signifiers that are
significant to that genre only.