2. Conventions
• Voiceover to introduce theme
• Main characters introduced
• Aimed at female-leaning audience
• ‘Boy meets girl’ scenario, typical happy endings.
• Emotional
• Include sexuality, status, gender and relationships.
• Usually some sort of conflict.
• Symbols of love i.e. flowers, hearts and wedding bells.
• Traditional ‘happy ever after’.
• Story becomes linked to audience emotions
3. What is conventional for general film
trailers? Inc. Sound, editing and
camerawork.
• Variety of titles. One is a disclaimer that displays which
audience the film is suitable for, it is shown at the beginning
so no one unsuitable will watch it.
• Another title is producers and distributers of the film. Names
of the actors.
• Sound; starting voiceover.
• Short clips of different parts of film to entice audience.
• Cut between different shots.
• Transitioned and faded to black to help the trailer flow.
• Close ups for emotions, long shots to show location.
4. Theories about trailers.
• Hypodermic needle theory; producers and directors
are injecting the audience with information in a way
that will manipulate them into seeing the film.
• Some audience will however take the information from
the trailer and interpret it in their own way and
therefore following the audience reception theory. For
example those who disagree with the footage and are
not persuaded to see the film are a negotiated
audience. Those who are persuaded are a dominant
audience.
5. • Romantic films are designed to entertain the
audience using escapism.
• Typical characters of the film are usually a boy
and girl who end up falling in love with each
together.
• Most romances are usually set in large cities.
6. Music
• Non-diegetic sounds to build atmosphere.
• Soft pop music
• Soft music when characters meet and begin to
fall in love
• Non-diegetic music when they begin a
relationship with music building up when
conflict arises leading to a breakup.
7. Dialogue
• Used to show story behind the characters
• General personality of those speaking in film.
Sound effect
Non-diegetic sound within romantic films often is
music to show the characters falling love and show
when the complication is about to happen and turn
the story.
8. Mise-en-scene
• Lighting is dim in order to create a romantic tense
atmosphere between the two characters to show
the connection between the male and female
characters.
• Costume is often casual.
• Everyday props, rose, mobile phones etc.
• Variety of locations depending on age of the
romantic film.
• Characters are mainly male and female who
previously did not know each other and have first
met.
