Conventions Mind Map and Target Audience of Romance

Mind map convention for romance

In this mind map you can see that there is many conventions and cliches of the genre romance. A romance film uses the simple formula boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again this is what romance films are basically about. A cliche is infrastructure of a classic romance is the females lead almost never ends up with the man shes supposed to spend the rest of her life with. However teen romances have their own cliche e.g new kids normally find it hard to fit in so they decide to hang out with social misfits or goths.  in romance films you always get that  pushy but lovable mother and the harried and befuddled father. With the boys there is always one supportive wing man which is very weird. There are also emotional powerful, ubiquitous e.g bride and groom getting ditched at the alter. In romance films there are often a summer romance in an exotic location it normally ends up with a happy ending. Finally dance is he crucial element of making a romance film brilliant as dance can save marriages,inner city schools and the misfortune brings lovers together.

The target audience is varied depending on what film you watch e.g Dirty dancing is for 18+  and also The Great Gatsby is for 16+ so it really depends on the film. The interests that the audience has to have to get into a romance film is you have to love romance the sight of a couple enjoying life together and especially seeing it in films. Also they needs to prepare for the emotional roller coaster of the fact that sometime the couple don't last but make a romantic reunion this effects the audience by it being so emotional that people end up crying. Also a romance includes sexual attraction so the audience has to prepare for that as that is the key element you need in a romance film. The different themes of romance is sometimes when the boy fancies a girl that is hard to impress then they fall in love and then someone gets in the middle of it and they break up then near the end of the film they get back together and it gets all emotional, that is the main theme this is what the audience may expect in a romance film. With all the different films the one thing that audience wants is to be effected by the emotion this is the key element of having a romance genre so the directors who produce the romance films tend to put that key element in.