Genre Codes and Conventions

 
Titles that fade in and out. In Love Actually titles at point to not disturb any action/dialogue

the love triangle is the main foundation of many rom coms,  main characters often have many flaws but more exaggerated.

There is often a main love interest that we see before the second love interest appears.. in Bridget Jones' diary the love between Colin firth's character and the title character is presented by Colin firths character turning around well before Bridget reaches him, and him looking at her.

An example of an atypical Rom-Com is About a Boy, this is what writer tamar jeffer mcdonald, calls a homme-com, this is where the main character is a male as opposed to a female, the make uo of the film is styill the same, with the mans character flaws being exaggerated.

in BJD Bridget Jones humiliates herself in front of the audience, this increases the relatability to the character and makes them seem more human.


original love interest to start
second love interest to create conflict, generally both are similar, but don't get along.
friend to give advise

non-diegetic audio to start often linking the final ident, as seen in our general codes and conventions