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Genre Conventions Blog: Romance

 

•Common camera angles in your genre (CAMS) camera angles, movement, shots


Close-up, medium, and long shots are the most typical camera angles. A close-up often focuses on a single item, most frequently the face of a person. It separates that thing from its surrounds and draws the viewer's focus to it. A medium shot is composed with the camera placed further away from the subject and, as a result, includes some of the surrounds that a close-up will omit. A long shot is used to convey a lot of background information because the camera is placed far from the subject.


• Common Mis-En-Scene in your genre (CLAMPS) Mis-En-scene

Common Mis-En-Scenes in a rom-com consist of a setting that would be a realistic situation like a mall, park, apartment, or a school. The props would consist of hearts, jewelry, flowers, chocolates, and wine. The costume would depend on the script and how the director would depict his characters status which would reflect their clothing.


• Common Editing in your genre


editing methods include Straight Cuts and Cross Cuts. Cross cuts are a technique used to show an action occurring between two different locations. Straight Cuts are utilized to maintain the story's consistency and make it flow smoothly. Additionally, the speed of edition will be slow, but there are small but major alterations made throughout the movie. For instance, the editing speed will start to quicken when the protagonists in the movie begin to fall in love, giving the impression that time is passing more quickly.


• Common sound in your genre

Common sound in a rom-com would be ambient sound with the background noise, Diegetic sound to have audio on what’s going on in scenes, Nom- diegetic sound for example a soundtrack for a trailer, dialogue between characters, and a sound bridge to link two scenes.


• Example films of your genres

Some example films would be “you people”, ”Marry me”, and “Ticket to paradise”.

Elements of the genre of the genre would be the funny moments it has but also how it is able to keep a on line script in telling and developing a story.


Elements of the genre that don’t appeal to me would be the over use of jokes and not having an equal balance. This has been seen before with many romances not really being romantic and mainly a comedy. It’s as if they try to fit a romantic setting over a comedy setting.




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