My chosen genre...!

For my film opening I am going to be portraying a romantic genre. Firstly, romantic genres are always generally most popular with females. Romantic genres can have either negative or positive tones but in most romantic films it starts of with either a positive tone and ends in a negative tone, vice versa. Romantic films also have the same idea, that there is a big adventure to find or to convince the other person to love them back as much as they adore them.


Conventions of a romantic Genre

• Happy, emotionally satisfying ending - normally optimistic
• Miscommunication (love then hate then love)
• Strong female characters
• Romance is being challenged by a person or a problem
• Film told from the point of view of both lovers
• Needs to be emotional appeal
• Two opposing characters that fall in love
• There is normally some sort of conflict between the characters

An example of a film which is categorised under a romantic genre is The Proposal. Two opposing characters, a strict uptight editor and her funny, charming assistant end up in an adventure together - faking their love for one another to so she can keep her visa and not face deportation back to Canada. In the end they both fall in love with each other.


The typical characters in a romantic film are generally totally opposite and would not even be associated with each other which makes the adventure even more exciting and we warm to the two characters and in the end the audience really wants to see the opposite characters together. 


For my production I need to ensure that I follow the conventions of a romantic genre so I produce a realistic film opening that is a romantic genre.