Initial ideas.

The great thing about choosing romance as my genre is that time period or reality isn't an issue, romance is such a broad genre and can be mixed with some many other genres to form a subgenre as love is something that features in everyone's lives whether its with a person or not there will be something in their life that they love.


Before thinking about a storyline I thought it would be best to think about all of the different possible basic ideas, so the type of love in my eyes begin the most important. Once I have chosen my type of love I will be able to start to build upon my storyline and be able to pick what age I want my characters to be but also what time period are they living in, these two things will be a lot easier to choose as my options are somewhat more limited than a real life director/producer as my resources are much more limited.

Type of love

In my mind map I have listed all of the different types of love I could do but even within them I could sub-categorise them. heterosexual, platonic and homosexual love are to do with the person whereas first love childhood and forbidden love are more situational loves. So I could even make a trailer on a forbidden heterosexual love or a childhood homosexual love. Even though platonic love is a type of love it isn't a love I think you could base a romance film on as when you look at the definition of romance: try to gain the love of; court. It implies to be in a relationship with the other person and you cannot be romantically involved with that kind of love.

Ideas

Idea 1) I think it would be really good fun and unique to do a forbidden childhood homosexual love where I could follow one character through their life and reflect the emotions of them towards their desired partner but also the pain of not being able to have them. I think that this would be one of the hardest out of my initial ideas as it would require a fair few actors so may be hard to juggle, but it wouldn't have the problem of another time period so would get rid of that problem.


Idea 2) Another idea that I have in my head is almost a typical chick-flick storyline so a teenage boy teenage girl meet in a popular setting maybe school or college or even somewhere like a café or they meet through friends. I think this idea would be easy to make seeing as I have access to those sort of settings but also that age range as well as it being set in the present time I wouldn't be struggling with location or sets.


Idea 3) Historical forbidden love, personally I have always enjoyed films that are set in the past and I think it would be awesome to give it a go. My idea would be a rich girl falls in love with a poor man but due to the difference in their social class' they cannot be together. I have the location available to me to film this but whether I have the costume and props available to me would be something I would have to look into before considering taking this idea any further.


Idea 4) First love, this idea has always been an interest of mine as im fascinated by the idea that depending on how our first love goes it taints how we view relationships and love.  I'd like to make a trailer on first loves in general like almost a fake documentary following a group of people or just one or two people ranging in ages and their day to day lives and how their first love affected them. This is one of my favourite ideas out of them all I think it would be fascinating to write but also fairly simple to film.