This document discusses common conventions and tropes in romantic films. It notes that romantic films often involve love at first sight, an unpopular boy chasing a popular girl, social barriers keeping couples apart, and sometimes tragic endings where the couple cannot be together. It provides brief summaries of the plots of A Cinderella Story, The Notebook, Titanic, and other romantic films to illustrate these conventions.

1. Romance

3. What are the conventions of this genre? Love at first sight In most films the boy is always chasing the girl The ‘unpopular’ boy/girl falling for the ‘popular’ girl/boy Something stops them from being together Sometimes ends with the couple not being able to be together

4. ‘ A Cinderella story’ This film is a typical contemporary romantic film, where the average unlucky girl falls for the popular boy who at first seems to be way out of her league, eventually the popular boy falls for the girl too.

5. The Notebook A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.

6. A fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship . Titanic

7. Institutions Warner brothers produced ‘Casablanca’ Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation produced ‘Titanic’ New Line Cinema produced ‘The Notebook’ Jarow Shepherd produced ‘Breakfast at tiffany's’ Great American Films Limited Partnership produced ‘Dirty Dancing’