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.