Task 3 - Conventions

• Chick flicks are normally upbeat and perky and includes lots of romance and comedy elements.
• There is never much violence in chick flicks because the target audience are normally young girls or young women.
• The main character must be female and must be considered  "strong" and "independent" when it comes to facing adversity and overcoming obstacles in the film.
• The "problems" in chick flicks are normally bad parents; bullies; ex-boyfriends; crush; best-friends and more....besides, there must be a love interest in a chick flick.
• Chick flicks must have certain moments where the main female character is really emotional due to them being upset by their problems.
• Most chick flicks are based in a high school (e.g. Mean Girls, Wild Child).
• The plot is mostly based common interest/issues of teenagers (parties, crushes, popularity, friendship, high school, first love, rebellion, cyber bulling....).
• The story line is always as simple as 'boy meets girls, boy are girl fall in love, boy finds her again just in time for the credit to role.'. (http://www.examiner.com/article/history-of-chick-flicks)

A typical example is Wild Child, where Poppy Moore has to move to a English School due to her parent then got into trouble with her friends and boy-friend.