Narrative

When it comes to the narrative of a romance film, the end is always a happy ending. It isn't always the expected ending, but the audience still are satisfied. Seeing as the individuals watching the film, always choose two characters which they want to be together - and surprisingly, the two characters do end up being together.
          The beginning of the film stereotypically starts off with two characters, living completely seperate lives. One of them either looking for love, or both of them looking for love. Themselves living lonely lives, most probably working at a shop, or even in an office. The audience gets to watch the characters go through their every day lives - this either showing both at the same time, for example on a split screen. Or straight cuts are used to show the two characters at the same moments in time, but at different times in the sequence. Either way, the audience get to see them. As well as their job and their every day lives, the audience often get to see the two characters with their own seperate group of friends. Being stereotypical, the female character only mainly hangs out with female friends. The male character only hanging out with male friends.
          The middle of the film consists of the two characters meeting, either through some radical storyline. For example; the female character could be hit by a car and taken to hospital, and the male character ends up being her doctor, and then they fall in love that way. In other circumstances a normal approach could be taken, such as; the two characters bump into each other in the street, or even in the same job (but the characters would have different job placements in the department.)


Stereotypical Characters
The main female character (in stereotypical romance genre):

The main female character is often thoughtful, and caring. She comes across to the audience instantly as someone you either want to look after (if male), or someone you want to be best friends with, or at least close with (male and female). She is often has a beautiful complexion in most stereotypical cases, but she is broken on the inside. Either suffering from a bad break up, or a horrific incident in the past. The character is mainly well behaved, and doesn't go off the rails. The only times the audience get to see the character upset is either when the two main characters break up, or if she goes through a rough time. The audience possibly being shown her past, which involves the bad break up, or the horrific accident. She may come across as either stylish, and flaunty in some cases - or on the opposite scale, she is completely out of fashion sense, and hides herself away. She may often also be quite the clumsy character, this giving another reason for the two characters to meet in the middle of the street.


The main male character (in stereotypical romance genre):
The main male character comes across as also thoughtful on the inside, but he could be a bit of a brute, or even quite the "player" in the sense that he is always with a different woman. But this can mean he does have quite the soft side, in the sense that he is looking for the perfect woman to fall in love with. (Just like Charles, from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral') He is often a tall character, broad, and most probably muscular. Although the physical build has been different in many films. Once again, just like the female character, the male will be attractive. This making the female audience fall in love with the character, and empathise for him if anything bad happens.


The characters in a non-stereotypical sense

For my actual storyboard, plot, and character set list. I don't want to follow the average romance conventions, in this case, I am going to have two males falling in love. Instead of the stereotypical male and female. Althought the two male characters will folllow the above stereotypical criteria. One would be more thoughtful, and feminine, whereas the other character will be more masculine, often with anger problems or some brute formed personality.