My media product incorporates the forms and conventions of real media products through the use of the two characters who are romantically linked with each other, you will find these characters in many Romantic genre films for example; in Pierre Salvadori's Priceless, Anne Fontaine's Coco avant Chanel and Michael Patrick King's Sex and the City.
The ways that the characteristics and storyline conforms to this type of genre is through the main plot of my story. My product follows the basic structure of a real romantic genre film, as it shows you the two characters meeting, falling in love, arguing and in my trailer the death of one of the characters and the progression of another. These conventions can be seen in films such as Coco Avant Chanel, where Coco first meets her lover at a Cabaret Bar/ Stage Performance in France, he then takes her under his wing whilst she as a person finds a place to belong, which in her case is couture making. This challenges the stereotyping of the male dominance, as the male character shown as the richer being takes the vulnerable woman under his wings. This role soon changes, as the story progresses the male character falls in love with Tautou's character, this gives us the main narrative of the story. In my story the two characters fall in love with each other at the scene they met. Another convention that my product follows is a complication within the plot, complications within real products can be seen within all three of my main inspiration pieces. In Sex and the City, the main complication is the part where the character 'Big' doesn't turn up to his wedding with Carrie. The story then follows Carrie and show's us the audience how she battles with the rejection of being stood up at the alter, as the story progresses it shows the audience that Carrie is a strong character and can overcome the rejection and also take Big back at the end, resulting in a happy ending. The storyline in Coco Avant is similar but different, and is more relatable to my product than Sex and the City, as this film shows us the main Character coping with the death of a loved one and how she is able to overcome the death, which is what the basic storyline of my film is. The way that Anne Fontain has included a complication within Priceless, is very different to my other two texts, as Pricless is very materialistic, and shows us the Female character being a stereotypical gold digger turned head over heals loved up girl by the end. The way that the complication is introduced within Priceless is through the males lack of money to charm the female.
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