LOVE ACTUALLY
Love Actually is a great example of romantic iconography. The house colour is red, which symbolises love and romance. In the trailer, most clips show a man and a woman as a couple, which is how you can tell it is a romantic film. Also because the film is set around Christmas time, the red can also symbolise festivity. Because my genre for our film trailer is romantic, i will consider using the red colour to show the audience that my genre is romantic.
TITANIC
The conventions of the romantic genre that is present in titanic is the love triangle. In titanic, the main female character Rose has a fiance when Jack first starts to love her. This is quite common in romantic films because it causes a problem, normally always leading to the fiance/husband being left for the 'new man'.
P.S I LOVE YOU
This trailer includes conventions of a romantic Drama film. The main convention is that it contains emotional feeling. In this trailer it is the husband who has died at a young age and leave his wife alone. Also in the trailer there is a voiceover which is used to introduce the love theme. Most females would watch this film to see a happy ending, which is why the audience is aimed at women more than men.
DEAR JOHN
The iconography in the trailer of Dear John show signs that this trailer has the genre of romantic drama. It uses the emotional feeling of John fighting in US army and throughout the trailer shows how he has to leave Savannah because he chooses to re-enlist. The obvious convention of this trailer is that a 'boy meets a girl' and the trailer shows how over a few weeks they both fall in love.
THE NOTEBOOK
This trailers iconography includes a voice over throughout the whole trailer which explains the film. Also in the middle of the film the trailer shows how the characters goes their separate ways which is a main emotional convention in romance films because it leaves the audience wondering what is going to happen. Also in this trailer it shows the love triangle which is a main convention in romantic dramas and causes a problem between Noah & Ali.
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