What makes a war/romance? (:

Narratives:
- The man usually ends up going to war, with his wife or fiancé left at home without him. She mostly misses him and tries to contact him in some way or form, meaning she either gets a good reply or bad news.
- Another common storyline is when the woman see's another man that grabs her attention, she debates between the men.
- The woman could possibly be working at war, as a nurse, and find love in a soldier who is injured, etc.

Settings:
- World War I
- World War II
- England, end of the war.

Stock Characters:
- Woman playing the wife, fiancé, love interest.
- Man playing a Soldier, love interest for a nurse?
- Male love interest for the Woman when her husband/lover is at war.

Iconography:
- Guns
- Bombs
- Planes
- Soppy Music?

Films:
- Cold Mountain
- The End of the Affair
- The Christmas Card
- Ride with the Devil
- A Very Long Engagement
- To Have or Have Not
- Crash Dive
- Australia
- Ballad of a Soldier
- The Notebook

Box Office:
- Casablanca - $1,719,913
- Cold Mountain - $173,013,509
- The Notebook - $115,603,229
- Australia - $151,352,928


Editing Techniques:
- Black & White
- Sepia
Both representing an old time movie.
- Non diagetic music - love songs.

Audience:
General audience, evoking feelings in all of the viewers. Possibly mainly for female because male's aren't interested in soppy love stories, usually.

This research has made me see that our film doesnt have to include guns, bombs, planes, etc, in the first few minutes in which the scene is set. They don't need to be included because ours is more of a love story rather than a war movie. It's set in war time, but doesn't actually involve the war as such. We need to use black and white to suggest to the audience that it's set in old time England, rather than nowadays, Because we don't plan on making fake explosions to connote war.

don't be so quick to judge me. you only see what i choose to show.