This document discusses the romance genre in film. It begins by defining romance as a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love, as portrayed in movies through people's feelings for one another and whether they fall in or out of love. It notes some typical conventions of romance films, like characters falling for each other and breaking up for other people. The document then lists some key romance films like Grease, Titanic, The Fault in Our Stars, Clueless, and Twilight. Finally, it identifies common genre signifiers in romance films like props, costumes, colors, music, and sound used to set the right mood. Secondary research methods like using online libraries and watching film trailers on YouTube were used to analyze these elements

1. RAGWANA AKRAM 12C
Unit 1 and 5
1) Find a definition for your chosen genre
Definit ion for Romance: A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with
love. A movie that has romance it is talked about how people feel about
each other, whether or not if they are in love. Genre convent ions are all the
lit t le things, from typical characters to repeat ing plot point s that separate one
genre of fict ion from another. (Sourced from www.wisegeek.com)
The things you expect to see in these films are that there is always someone
who falls in love with another and there will be people breaking up for
another person. Where the movie extent s to the point where t he whole story
is quite a bit messed up, leaving the audience half confused.
The genre convent ions are: main characters, are there any cliff-hangers? ,
age rest rict ions, appropriate music etc.
Some movies/ films have sub genres this is when the movie has two stories in
one such as a movie talking about one thing and then it shows as a music
piece this will be seen as a sub-genre.
Methods: SECONDARY
Techniques: The techniques I will be using are library; this is
because the research method I will allow me
to look for what I am searching for; which is
the definit ions for romance
Information Log: ht tp://www.thefreedict ionary.com/romance
ht tp://www.wisegeek.com/what -are-genre-convent
ions.htm
Organisation: I am going to file it on the Haverstock media
blog. This is because all my work must be
submit ted on the internet therefore I will only
be doing some draft work in my exercise
book.
Relevance: I t is useful because I know what ‘romance’ is a
genre and that it will help me understand
what my init ial mind map idea is about .

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2) What are some of the key films in this genre?
 Grease
 Titanic
 The fault in our stars
 Clueless
 Twilight
Methods: SECONDARY
Techniques: The techniques I will be using are ‘internet’. This
will help me find which movie has romance in,
examples of a movie would be Titanic, clueless
etc.
Information Log: http://www.imdb.com/genre/romance
Organisation: I will be filing it in the Haverstock media blog. This
is where all my work will be uploaded on. I will be
putting this particular work in a timeline folder
where it will be marked.
Relevance: I t is relevant to my work because it tells me what
the key films are in the genre.
3) Identifying genre signifiers.
Props, costumes, colour, main image, music, sound.
Methods: SECONDARY
Techniques: The techniques I will be using for this is the
internet. This is because i have watched trailers
of romance movies this allows me to analyse
what the actors were wearing, what type of
music that was played and if it was appropriate
for the right audience, which it was. There were
a lot of different colours that were shown. To fit
with the right costuming and scenery.

3. RAGWANA AKRAM 12C
Information Log: www.youtube.com
Organisation: I will be filing it in the Haverstock media blog. This
is where all my work will be uploaded on. I will be
putting this particular work in a timeline folder
where it will be marked.
Relevance: I t is relevant because it has shown me what
genre signifiers meant. I t also shows what the
movie/ film will have such as all the props,
costumes, etc.