Genre: Romance

In a romance short film it is stereotypical for their to be a male 'hero' in a 'boy meets girl' style scenario. Throughout the film it is suggested that the boy and girl would/should get together but for some reason they end up separating and going their different ways. However, in the end of the film they are reunited and there is a traditional 'happy ever after'.

Most romance films are aimed at a female demographic (the target audience), although other elements from other genres can be mixed in with romance to widen the target audience. For example, a common genre mix is romantic comedies.

A professionally made romance short film - textual analysis
 

 

This short film is pretty cool as it features the story of two teenagers that meet at a party, but instead of hearing what they are saying, we see clips of their adventures and hear a voice-over of a male talking about a past relationship, which we understand to be the one shown in the video. At the end of the video we find out that the 'narration' is in a fact an email that the male character is writing to his ex-girlfriend as he reminisces over their past relationship. Throughout the entire video there is no other dialogue but there is slow music with a gentle beat playing. I think that this type of music has been used as it makes the audience understand that the general theme of the video is sad, and so the slow rhythm portrays this. 

 

I like how the story is told in this way because it is different from others that I have seen and it also allows you to watch the video without paying too much attention to what is happening in each shot - the audience can mainly concentrate on what is being said by the male character and from this they can picture for themselves the relationship between the two teens. I also like the range of shots used to show the actions and emotions of the characters, something that I will bare in mind when creating my own coursework.

 

Using these thoughts, I have created an idea for a music video in this genre. This video would feature a male and female character (age uncertain, maybe late teens/mid-twenties) and the video would tell a story of their relationship. This video would show more of the positive side of being in a relationship, rather than showing the negatives. The video would contain montage scenes of the couple going on days out, to theme parks and the beach for example. For this idea I would choose an up-beat song, something like She's So Lovely by Scouting for Girls. If I were to film this video then I would use a range of shots, like panning shots to establish location and zooms to show the happy emotions on the character's faces.