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One other narrative convention we followed in our romance trailer was a chance meeting between our two main characters. This type of meeting is often shown in romance films to show that the relationship being featured was meant to be. This adds to the magic of the love that is shown and the appeal of watching a romance film as meeting someone by chance is unlikely in a society where you can have access to anyone at any time. Using this convention within our film trailer is important because it will mean that the audience further support the two characters getting together, this is specifically important in our trailer as our couple is considered controversial.

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Another narrative convention we followed within our film trailer was our use of conflict. Typically, within romance films a conflict occurs which threatens the couple staying together. Because of this convention we decided to include Kai seeing Rosemary with another man, this adds conflict and tension to the overall trailer and allows us to be more conventional. This use of conflict to add interest to the characters outcome is used in several romance films such as the notebook. This influenced our romance trailer as it makes our love story more realistic as a typical relationship doesn’t exist without some conflict.

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Despite these conventions that we used we also challenged some. One of these is that we don’t feature a typical heterosexual couple. Typically romance films focus on a boy meets girl story because of this we decided challenge this convention and create a trailer with a couple featuring a transgender female and a bisexual female. This choice largely challenges many typical romance films such as the Notebook or Love, John. Another way we challenged many typical romance films is through our main character. We did this not focusing on a female but rather focusing on a male as they transition into a women. This challenges many conventions as usually romance films focus on a female character due to the largely female audience.

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Another genre convention we used as a group was the convention of having a sub-genre or using other genre elements. This is a common convention of romance films as it can be difficult to only create a romance film. Within our trailer we added a LGBTQ+/ coming of age element to our film narrative. This was because we were inspired by the trailer of the film Love, Simon along with the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower. This is because although they both feature love and romance they both tackle more serious topics that mainstream teen films don’t typically tackle. For example Love, Simon features a teenager coming to terms with his sexuality whilst The Perks of Being a Wallflower talks about the outsiders of society. This largely impacted our production process as it inspired us to also talk about more serious topics.

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One example of a typical romance genre convention we used was our target audience. When creating our film trailer we identified our target audience as females aged 15-25 this is a large convention of the romance genre as typically only young females are interested in watching romance films. We furthered our use of this convention by specifically targeting this audience through our use of teenaged actors, a school setting and teenage issues. An example of this also being done in a real media text is Lisa Azuelos romance film lol (2012), As the film is set in a school surrounding a group of teenagers and uses stereotypically teenage items such as phones.

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Throughout the production of our film trailer and ancillary tasks we were aware of many typical conventions of romance films, this allowed us to either reinforce or challenge certain conventions. One area of our production we largely used conventions in was narrative.