Romance

Romance


The conventions of the romance genre include: A relationship, a very pushy parent, a strange best friend, a love triangle,  normal middle class people and a break up/argument.
The main characters are usually the two people that are in the relationship. The main characters are usually ordinary people that live ordinary lives, this is because the audience will be able to relate to it as they will be able to imagine themselves in the situation.
There is very often a love triangle. This creates tension and usually entertainment, there will be arguments and sometimes even physical fights. Stereo typically the so called 'third person' in the love triangle is very handsome man from a past relationship that has come back to try and win the girl back.
Things you would expext to see in a romance include flowers and gifts, the gifts usually for things like weddings which is widely assosciated with the romance genre.
The target audience of romance is mainly woman. This is because stereotypically woman are more emotional and enjoy watching romantic films. Woman usually watch these types of films as romance films offers a sence of escapism, woman will want to escape from their every day lives and imagine themselves being in love with the man of their dreams. Men would not really be attracted to romance films as they are more into fast paced action films, the romance genre is much more relaxed and slow paced so it would mostly be aimed towards woman