1. By Debbie Marques

2. Romantic Drama

3.  Most interesting and touching for me
 Most films I watch are romantic drama
 Inspirational scenes were mostly based on
this genre
 Have a better knowledge about the
conventions on this genre.

4.  Love stories
 Affairs
 Focus on passion emotions
 Journey love takes through marriage
 Usually lovers face obstacles
 Illness
 Financial problems
 Racial
 Social class status
 Sexual orientation

5.  Love at first sight
 young with older love
 obsessive love
 forbidden love
 sacrificial love
 Tragic love
 Ending with a ‘’happily ever after’’
 Reunion of family
 Final kiss
 Not all have happy endings

7. Titanic
Dirty dancing
• the most
difficult part of
the dance
•Practiced
through the
•Dancing scene
entire film, never
• memorable
• flying scene went right
• unexpected
• very romantic
• remember her
• original (never happened
and the ‘tickles’
before)
• memorable
• shows the love

8. The
A walk to remember
notebook
• first kiss of the
couple
• romantic
atmosphere
• unexpected
Grease •Ending scene
•They die holding
hands
• very romantic
• Sad
•Final scene
•Knows one is expecting these
changes
•Memorable

9. (Conflict)
Man gets threatened to leave
wife otherwise she will die. He
leaves her, full of despair she
leaves home gets run over and
3. Man divorces
dies. How will he react to this ?
from his wife as
he finds out his
interest in men,
she loves him so
much that she
ends up killing
him as she thinks Drama
if he’s not hers he 1. 2o year old boy obsessed
is no one else's . over a 16 year old rich
(obsession) girl, tries to rape her
(obsession)
2. Women always been jealous of
cousin because she was the
perfect one therefore decides
to kill her to stay with cousin’s
husband (revenge)

10.  Married for 3 years
 Husband gets a letter threatening him to
leave his wife that he loves, otherwise she
will die
 Husband to save her, pretends he has an
attraction for his friend
 Wife in despair and confusion leaves house
without thinking
 wife gets run over by a car and dies
 Husband feels guilty tries to commit suicide
when he hears his wife’s voice telling him to
be strong and that wasn't his fault

11.  Close up shot of wedding rings
 husband looks at letter threatening him
 Flashbacks of wife leaving the house in tears
 Sound of car breaks
 Wife laying on road with husband on his
knees, crying, holding her hand (reverse
zoom )

12. Husband (Matt)
•caring
•Loving
•Romantic
•Handsome
•Casual clothes
•Fashionable
Wife (Diana)
•Loves husband
•Wealthy
•Spoilt
•Fashionable
•Beautiful
•Her image is her
identity

13.  Wedding rings – who is married ?
 What was matt’s excuse to leave the wife ?
 How did he react to the wife’s death ?

14.  People from 15 to 20
 Mostly females
 Romantic people
 Enjoys drama romance
 Believe in love
Interesting to target audience :
 Using characters that are more or less the
same age
 Using realistic problems in these peoples
lives