The document discusses several romantic comedy films that the author enjoys, including Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually, and About A Boy. All three films feature popular actors like Hugh Grant and Colin Firth that appeal to the target romantic comedy audience. The success of these films can be attributed to starring well-known actors of the genre and exaggerating relatable romantic situations that viewers find amusing and entertaining.

1. My Movies

2. Bridget Jones Diary
Bridget Jones Diary is based on a book about a woman in her 30’s, Bridget Jones
played by Renee Zellwger, living in london who is trying to figure out her life including
her love life where she is torn between her boss, daniel cleaver played by Hugh Grant,
and a human rights lawyer who is a friend of the family, Mark Darcy played by Colin
Firth. This film belongs to the Romcom genre of film and was that successful that it
has a sequel named ‘Bridget Jones Diary-The Edge Of Reason’ and is set to have a 3rd
installment.
Bridget keeps a diary of her life in which she attempts to find the man of her dreams
and live happily ever after as well as trying to loose weight
And give up smoking. She portrays a very ordinary woman,
Having to deal with her couple friends asking about her love
Life and embarressing moments at work and in her social life
Which is appealing to the target audience making this film so
Successful.

3. Love Actually
Love Actually is based on the love life of 8 different characters and we follow each of their
story all in the month leading up to Christmas. This includes a dad, played by Liam
Neeson, trying to help his son pluck up the courage to tell a girl that he likes her, Hugh
Grant plays the prime minister who has fallen in love with a maid, played by Martine
Mcutchen, and also feature the like of Keira Knightly and Colin Firth.
I think that reason this film was so successful was because of the cast that was chosen to
feature in the film. As this film also belongs to the RomCom genre having stars such as
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in the film meant that the target
audience are likely to go and watch this film as these as are
well known stars of this particular genre.

4. About A Boy
About A Boy is based on the life of man who lives a bacherlor lifestyle, played by Hugh
Grant, who enjoys dating many different women and lives of the royalities of his dads
famous christmas song. In his quest to meet some more women he ends up meeting a
young boy who doesn’t have a very good life as he gets bullied at school and doesn’t have
many friends, as he takes the boy under his wing he makes him realise that he actually
wants to settle down and have a family and we watch how he attempts to change his life.
Again the reason I think that this film is successful is because it feature Hugh Grant who is
appealing to the target audience as this film could be classed as a RomCom. The audience
get to see how the guy who cares about his appearance and clothes
and doesn’t really do much with his life become a sort of father
figure to a young boy and even gets himself into embaressing
situations to help him out before the boy then helps him to find
a woman to settle down with.

5. RomCom Genre
I like to watch films that belong to the RomCom genre (Romantic Comedy) as I find the
way the exagerate to sitiuations that happens to everyone in their own lives amusing
and entertaining. I think that they are usually films that make you feel cheery and
content as they use certain situations from everyday life such as people struggling to
figuare out what they want to achieve in life and their love life and exaggerate it to
show the funny side to it all and gives off a ‘not to worry’ impressive to the audience.
However I personally chose these kinds of film based on who stars in it, for example I
am likely to go and see a new film if it features someone such as Hugh Grant as he
anchors down what kind of film it will be as he appears in most of my favourite films.
Most films in the ROMCOM genre share similar connotations and storylines of boy
meets girl, at first they don’t like each other, they fall in love and then finally end up
together.

6. Star Theory
When I watch films from my chosen
genre there is a lot of star theory for
example most of my favourite films out
of this genre feature the actor hugh
grant. He is a big name in romcom films
meaning he is a main character in most
films. This helps me decide whether or
not to watch a film my looking at who
stars in it. If I see that Hugh Grant is to
star in a film I’m more likely to watch it,
as I’m a fan of the majority of his film,
compared to an unknown actor or
actress.

7. Reception Theory
Reception theory is about how an audience reacts to a film based
upon their age, gender, ethnicity, social class.
For example, ‘Need For Speed’ appeals to
Young men between the ages of 16 and 35.
With this film it doesn’t matter about social
class as much as other films would because
it appeals to a wide range of men, for those
who aspire to have them cars as well as
people who already do.

8. Bridget Jones Diary Film Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQdy98B1nf0
Features typical
connotations of a
romantic comedy film
trailer. It shows some
comical scenes as
well as the romantic
attachments to
anchor down what
gene the fillm
belongs to.

9. About A Boy Film Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-apwoGTpi7E
Shows the storyline
of the film from
start to finish to
show how the
young boy helps
the man get his life
back in order.

10. Intertextuality
There is not much intertextuality in this particular film
genre even though most of the films have a similar
storyline it doesn’t often use intertexuality to appeal to
its target audience and tends to use star theory as a
away appealing to their target audince and anchoring
down what genre the film belongs to.

11. Media Literacy
There are a lot of different ways that you can find out about new
movies set to be realesed. Advertising is a main way that movies get
across. This includes adverts on TV, Billboards, magazines,radio and
newspapers.
Interviews are also a promotion that actors often use to talk about the
film they have recently starred in which will appeal to the target
audience, for example they will go around the world and appear on
chat shows.
Social networking websites such as facebook and Twiiter are a big way
to advertise with actors being able to promote their new film directly
to their fans.
Other websites like Youtube are a good way to promote a new film,
with adverts on their home screen and before a video plays. This is a
good way to advertise to the films target audience.

12. Active Spectatorship
The active spectatorship theory suggests that each viewer is
different and many people in the audience will question the film
and react to it in different ways to others, finding different
meanings behind a film.
Active spectatorship also relates to the idea of ‘fandom’. This is
where the audience for a particular
film adopts it as their own for
example fans of the twilight films
name themselves as ‘Twi-hards.’