When editing a film, they use all different techniques to illustrate and make the genre clear. The genre of a film is important to show through first the trailer to target the right audience and get people wanting to see it and then carrying it on through the film making it stronger. The way films are edited make people’s emotions stronger and captures the audience to draw them in. Romance films are quite easy to edit to show the genre clear because of how editors can make characters seem real together and make the audience believe everything. It takes a good script director and editor to really make the audience feel a connection to the main characters in the film. A lot of mid-shots are used in romance films to show the body language of the characters towards each other and make us feel closer to know more connected. They also use close ups so we can see facial expressions and how the characters are feeling in a certain scene which in romance films its usually always happy and lustful. The notebook is a good example of old fashioned film love where things are always romantic or the complete opposite. The humour in Romance films is usually just shared between the characters it’s not specifically for the audience to laugh at more to ‘aww’ at. In this scene from the notebook we see the romance at its height then they argue and then they are back in love again. This genre is used to play with the viewer’s emotions. We see the close up and mid shot in this scene.
Romantic Comedies are a newer way of showing romance, we see a lot more funny scenes this is a typical part of the films. They meet fall in love something happens they break up go out with friends do something stupid and then get back together. There is usually a sad scene to make the audience feel emotion for the characters or a certain one too. They always end emotional weather there happy or sad; in the end it’s just as soppy as an old school proper romance just with a few more laughs. Because this is such a popular genre used and people usually know what’s going to happen at the end editors have to try and make it a bit different to keep people wanting to want to watch them. In this other clip of the last scene of a film called The Break Up we see the couple who have been on and off through this rom com and gone through a lot, see each other again after a long time and they say hi and walk away. This is a different ending to a film and leaves the viewer after the film to make up their mind on what they think happened, did they get back together or not? The scene shots a lot of close ups as we see how the characters look so happy after bumping into each other again.
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