The two main things we found in our research was.....
* The encounter of two potential romantic partners in unusual or comic circumstances, the potential couple could comprises polar opposites, two people of different temperaments, situations, social statuses or in some cases all three.
* Often the two characters would encounter a obsticle that prevent them from being together, and they would have to overcome that obsticle with one character normally making 'the grand gesture' and proclaiming their love for the other one and ending happily ever after.
other things include :
* light humour
* lots of showing of dramatic emotions eg: sadness of a breakup, then joy being reunited.
* A different range of characters from the dumb ditzy friend in favour for the realtionship, to the smart snobbish friend against the relatioship
In recent years these romantic comedies have been the top grossing films :
What Women Want (2000)
American Pie 2 (2001)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Hitch (2005)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Knocked Up (2007)
Sex and the City (film) (2008)
The Proposal (2009)
In most rom-coms the way males and females are represented are vital, the male often is seen as the immature one and he is the protaganist character that has the main obsticle to overcome. The female is represented as the more wiser, more mature character who has to try and develop the male into what he needs to be. Sometimes it is the male who is seen to have to 'grow-up' and start taking responsablities, the female helps him on the way. This can be seen as the male sometimes being the main role as the attention will focus around him, being the dominant sex.
The language used in these rom-coms is pretty down to earth, the character are shown to be your everyday people, most films in this genre are not very interlectual and are based around problems that the audience will have to go through, to help them relate.
The audience in these films are majority of the teen ages but also appeal more to the female sex because of the romance and emotions that will appeal to them. With it being a rom-com it is likely there is going to be sexual jokes, revolving around how at this time in their lives teenagers are going through these experiances.
The narrative in these films as we have breifly touched on earlier is often a problem that will bring two characters of opposite to attract and come together. The institution will use everyday obstilces to get across their point, such as pregnancy and drugs as examples.
* Mood Board
When looking at romantic comedies we decided to make a mood board so we could look at similarities and features to use in our poster that we would have to create.
