Codes and Conventions of Romance

After watching some Teaser trailer for the genre of romance, i have found codes and conventions of a romantic teaser trailer to be;

• The trailer follows a clip, text, clip,text format in most cases. However, if this is not seen then a voice over is usually used.
• The main protagonist is established in the trailer, in romance this is usually the main male and female.
• Most trailers show that a heartbreaking situation e.g betrayal, bereavement e.t.c usually occurs, a glimpse of this is shown in the teaser trailers.
• Emotion is also shown in the trailer, this links to the genre as romance is known to be heartbreaking.
• Todorovs theory is followed.
• And a happy ending is normally found in romance genre.

Genre

In our groups we had to pick a genre for the teaser trailer. This was an important decision as we wanted to pick the correct genre that allowed us to show our full ability during the research, production and evaluation of the main task. For the Teaser trailer, our group has chosen to pick the genre of romance. Initially, we thought horror would be a better genre for us to do our teaser trailer on, but after discussing it we realised it would be much harder to create spookiness and horror characters on a low budget with out them appearing to be look tacky and cheap. Therefore, we decided on romance as we all have good background knowledge on the genre and it is also another strong area for us as a group. This means we should be able to produce coursework at a high level, due to our advantage of watching lots of romance movies within the group.

G324 Coursee

The A2 course for media allows us to choose our own brief, giving us the freedom to advance on skills that we picked up in AS media. This also allows us to achieve more as we are creating a production piece that we are more interested in and that we feel we can achieve a better grade in. The course for this year is different for AS as we work in a group for the main task. I am looking forward to this because this means that the work load can be equally distributed between us and that we can share ideas and help to work on a better narrative and other elements of the production piece. However, we can still work individually in the ancillary task, which still allows us to create our own freedom and add our own individuality to the task.
For the main task, our group has chosen to do the Teaser Trailer. This is because we feel we can create this to a high standard and that our ideas for this brief will be to the best of our ability. For the ancillary task i have chosen to do the website design page and the film poster. I have chosen to do these because they are different from each other allowing me to show my skills in different areas of ICT for the tasks.