Conventions of Romance

Females are known to be more emotional in a relationship than men which is is why the genre of romance is always aimed at a female audience. Stereotypically women enjoy the romance as they like to feel as though they can relate the roles being played and one day would like to experience a relationship like the one they are watching.

There is usually a scene that introduces the two main roles of the man and woman at the same time, this creates a connection and hints to the audience that they are a good love match. A lot of the time its the male character that falls for the woman as soon as he sees her in which he tries to win her over. In many romance films there is another man in the way, someone who interrupts the relationship or a disagreement between the couple causing a separation for some of the movie until they reunite and get back together, leading on to them living "happily ever after".

Family is always involved in a romance movie especially the mother; she is normally a pushy parent that wants their daughter/son to be in a strong relationship. The two main characters always have someone to rely on whether it's a best friend or family member, some time in the movie they will get relationship advise from them.

Always regular people that live a normal life, making the audience feel like the can relate with the story and characters. Sometimes the couple that are "meant to be" are completely opposite people e.g ones rich and the others poor, this isn't something you see happen in real life which mean the audience would feel like they are leaving reality when watching the movie.

One of the people in the relationship has gone through something which makes them emotionally vulnerable e.g mothers died, dads left ect. This creates sympathy towards that character which makes you want the pair to live happily ever after.