In an earlier post, I was looking into making my film a coming-of-age film, but since I want to create a sense of normalcy to lesbian love, I'm going with the cliche rom com opening most movies have. Coming-of-age films take on heavy and deep issues, which is normally the basis for LGBTQ+ movies, but I want this film to be a happy, feel good film.
With this, I took to the chick flick subgenre that many heterosexual rom coms use where the plot of the movie is surface level and the focus is just to build a loving, fluffy relationship. The narrative of high school girls being love crazed will be delivering expectations, but I’ll deny the typical heterosexual approach and have the love interest also be female. The main character also isn’t struggling with her homosexuality, she embraces it and is openly out and openly presents herself in a more masculine way, which is a stereotype of lesbian women. Presenting lesbian love in a way that is typical or normal is another denial of expectations since most LGBTQ films focus on the struggle to come out or come to terms with their sexuality, but my main character embraces it. I’ll delay some of the expectations of rom-coms by having no witty dialogue until later on in the film since there’s typically a narrative voiceover or conversation happening, i.e. the intro to "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" and "The Half Of It".
My research into films within the romance comedy genre really helped me narrow down that I wanted to do for my film. I noticed that each of the films I watched like “10 Things I Hate About You” used character reactions, difference in music, and character actions to characterize within the first two minutes. This is similar to “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” where Lara Jean is painted as creative and a hopeless romantic in her daydream sequence at the beginning. It really sets a character up for us to understand their interests and personality even though we’ve only seen them on screen for around a minute. The cinematography of these films have certain shots they use typically, like the upside down angle the To All The Boys series constantly uses. With this, there’s also a certain color scheme to the films as well, like in “Love, Simon”, they constantly use more muted colors except for romance moments or in “Kissing Booth”, they use bright colors that pop out at you.
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