Task 2: Research into Existing Products (Romantic Comedies)

Romantic Comedies

Introduction:

Romantic Comedies are known for there sense of humorous plot lines, but with a nice romantic story to go along with it. A typical film would have a man and women who would love each other at first sight. But they would have to face different obstacles and challenges to gain each others love.

The basic conventions in a Romantic Comedy:

The main conventions would be things such as cheerful music with beautiful relaxing settings such as the countryside, beach, holidays, churches and so on. This helps set the audience in a happy calm mood and makes them want to watch on.

When looking at the characters, they would also be happy all the time. But the man who is the main character could be a bit odd out from the rest which sort of puts him out the group. So when he tries to win the girls love, he has to battle his way through the other people.

This main character would also face many other obstacles such as the girls parents, class difference such as the girl could be a lower class than him or the girl could already be with someone else. But in some films there would be a woman playing this roles but its most common a man playing this role.

The main attraction towards romantic comedy films is that how the man is going to win his love with the girl. This is the main reason why the audience would prefer to watch this film and in some cases they might even want to picture their life like this.

Below is screenshots of a film called, Women in trouble. This is a very propular romantic comedy film and contains all the conventions you would expect from this genre. There are many women who star in this film, but they all have something in common. This it woman who stars in it is very preety and stunning. But they look as if they are reaching their middle age.

These women would try a find their love of there life but they would always get a problem which they try to avoid. For example the women below loves this man, but she has a major obstacle were this man already has someone else. And she is worried she might get caught. There would also be some scence which is very upsetting and sad.

But at the end they would always find their perfect match after going through so much pain and problems. When this moment comes in the film, it would show that life starts to get better and more relaxed. This is the reason why the viewers would want to watch romantic comdies due to them hoping that their own life would turn out like this. This is the main effect the film producers would want to give.

Examples of Romantic Comedies:

As you can see the film covers are colourful and eye catching. There title and captions are big and bold. They all also give a little intro of the film such in, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, you can already see who the main character is who is trying to win someone love which it the person on the right. And the person who he loves is the girl in the red clothes which follows on as his first obstacle which is to get rid of the man on the left. Also the text is in two different colours which is blue and pink. These colours repersent the male and female gender because these colours are most prefered by that gender and would suit them. This would make both genders comfortable in watching this film. It is important on how you locate the images and text to get the right message across. The other thing is that the bankground in all of them is white. This makes the film look plain, simple and wouldn't counfuse the viwers in thinking that it is a horror or thriller film. It also it makes the pictures and text stand out.