Genre Research; Making a romantic

film trailer.

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

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.