G321 Steph Meares: Genre Opening Codes and Conventions

Codes and Conventions of a ‘Romcom’ movie:

A romcom appeals to people in love or hoping to be soon. This is argued tha it is mainly women, so the main audience will be generally younger women.
The characters in romcoms do things that are seen as funny which adds to the comedy aspect.
The plot of most romcoms is that a couple who may or may not be together at the beginning of the film, but are clearly meant to be- end up being together at the end. It is mostly always a happy ending. It is always that sterotypical idea of 'love'.
It is mainly always hetrosexual relationships, male and female. It is rare that a gay couple is seen in a rom-com.
The music is slow, romantic but usually music that appeals to anyone- it is easy to like.
The main characters are good looking and usually big stars.
The setting is usually somewhere obvious where everybody would understand where it is, usually a big and well known city.
There is sometimes competetion between the male and another male fighting for one woman. However this can be turned around and have 2 women fighting for a male.
Stereotypical colours are used, red to represent love and pink signifies femininity. White represents purity.