RESEARCH - WHY PEOPLE ENJOY ROMANTIC FILMS

WHY PEOPLE ENJOY ROMANTIC FILMS

Romantic films are idealised throughout the cinema industry. This is because people like to be happy and enjoy feeling good so they see these films as the films create this sort of emotion. This genre more likely than not always has a happy ending so it is therefore not just a coincidence audiences like to watch these films. A  typical summary of these romantic films is that a man and woman go through all sort of trials and tribulations and eventually get to where the audience want them to be which is to be happy with each other.  They can then therefore get emotionally involved in the film which brings in the need to see more, this I believe is why this film genre is still widely applauded and used particularly in the winter as it is close to Christmas and in the summer. This is because these our times have happiness and joy for most (Christmas and the sun).

One type of sub genre has been used in the form of romance before is ‘tragedy’. Often people can relate their real lives to the situation the characters experiences in the film. This is another way in which audiences can feel part of the film but in a negative way. Another reason audiences would want to watch romantic films is due to the lack of romance in their own lives and therefore replaces this need of love by watching films. This could work in effect to be an escape from normal life for some. Also these films promote dreams for some people as these characters in specific films find the ideal person which is unnatural for real life but people watch these films as it makes them happy to think it.

People enjoy watching romantic films for many different reasons whether it is for a negative reason or positive. One of them main reasons this audience watch romances is because it gives them a sense of safety as there is happiness in the world for romantics.

INTRODUCTION TO YEAR 13 WORK

My name is Josh Dowsett and this is where I will post my year 13 media coursework. For this coursework I will be working with Jake Bourke. The tasks for this coursework are to create:

-          A teaser trailer for a film

-          A magazine cover which would promote our film

-          A poster which would also help promote our film

We are hoping that the audiences which see our trailer would want to watch our film and by having a poster and magazine cover it could help promote our film further more.

The genre of our film which we will be based on is ‘romantic’. We chose this because we realised by research that in previous years the majority of students have chose to do horror films. Also this year many of my fellow students have chosen to do horror films and therefore we believe that a romantic based idea would be completely different to the normality of these tasks.

For the film which we will be promoting we are going to be aiming to make the age rating a 12 plus. This is mainly due to fact that the characters in our film trailer are going to be around our age. This therefore makes our specific audience for people aged (17-25). We are hoping that the audience would then be able to relate the issues in our trailer to their real lives would make them want to the film if it was created.

The film institution we are going to be using is a made up institution which we have decided to name ‘comet cinema’. They will be seen as specialists in the field of romantic films which is different to any other big company in this industry.

The plot of the trailer in brief detail is:

-          Man meets woman

-          The two are shown happy in shots together

-          The two become very close to each other which will be easily seen

-          He goes to high profile university

-          Later on in year he comes back to visit only to find out she is with someone else

-          Final shots will be involving romantic shots and fighting to create drama which we are hoping would make people want to see the actual film.

The main selling point we will be trying to promote is that we are hoping the audience can relate their own lives to the trailer. Not only just emotionally but be Able to relate the things they see in their life to the nature in our trailer. This will hopefully bring a sense of normality to the trailer so the audience will feel part of it.