Romance Codes and Conventions
- Audience: Aimed at female audience
- 12-15 certificate to maximize the audience
- A typical romance genre would include sexuality, status, gender and relationships
- Narrative: falling in love, dating, kissing
- Often a voice over is used to introduce the love theme
- Main characters are introduced-attractive female and male
- Setting: they are normally set in an urban environment, a beach, a school etc, places where a chance encounter would happen
- When a romance film opens, it is likely that much of the setting will be shown to the audience from the use of establishing shots and wide shots showing characters and much of the setting and area behind them.
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