Potential ideas:
As I am doing a trailer for a romcom I have several different ideas of what my story will be, as I am basing my story on the narrative theory of Tzvetan Todorov I will have to make sure the narrative supports the story of my trailer. I have taken ideas from several different romcoms and I have analysed four trailers, which have inspired me with my stories, and I have watched countless other trailers as well, I have also watched different genres of trailers to have a wider knowledge of trailers, but also to incorporate some of the conventions of different genres into my trailer, as many trailers nowadays are hybrid and have a mix of different genres in them.

Idea 1: My original idea was for the trailer to have just one main protagonist; a woman, and the trailer would follow her as she deals with her love life. I was going to set it at her work and the main story of the trailer was how she was in love with her boss, and my first shots would have been scenes showing her love for him, her staring longingly at him. Her boss does not know she loves him, and he is in a relationship with a beautiful model, and as a secondary story there would be the relationship between the woman who loves her boss and her best friend, who is male, and her best fiend has feelings for her, and that would be shown in the trailer with him always being there for her, and the way he stares at her. This was my first idea but I decided against it as I feel that the story of the woman being in love with her boss is quite common to romcoms, and I want my romcom to be quite unique and to not have many films which have the same story, but I do feel it was a good starting point as it has conventions of romcoms in the idea, such as the main protagonist is a female and this is seen in most romcoms, and also the story is quite cliche, and most romcoms are cheesy and cliche as that is how they attract their audience, as most females like a fun, cliche film, as the usually make people feel better.

Idea 2: My second idea was a story following three different women, and it would have been a multi-strand narrative. The film was based on the three women, Rachel, Lucy and Alex, and the trailer would show them going out shopping, having lunch, working and just doing everyday things, and the main focus would be on the different dates they go on, and their love lives. They all are workers, but they're different ages, Rachel 25, Lucy 30, and Alex 35, so as to appeal to the different ages of the audience, and as they're all in work this would also appeal to the target audience. This idea does follow conventions of romcoms as the main protagonists are females, and the story is based on their love life, which is what most romcoms are based on, and also the audience follows the conventions of romcoms, as this trailer would appeal to the conventional target audience of romcoms, females around the ages of 25-40, and this is evident in their ages, and professions. I decided against this idea as I wanted to appeal to women but also men, as many men are taken to the cinema by their girlfriend and made to sit through the film, and I want them to be interested in my trailer, and this wouldn't appeal to men at all, so I decided to put a male character in my trailer to appeal to both genders.

Idea 3: My third idea which is the one I chose, is a story of a male and female who meet at a bus stop, and the trailer follows them as they date and then get engaged, but in my trailer I will not show them getting engaged to retain enigma, and this is the aim for most trailers, to convey the story but to keep it a mystery to entice the audience. The trailer would show many different clips of them together such as walking in a park, which is also a cliche of a couple in love, and most romcoms are usually cliche's, eating a meal together, and hugging and kissing, what most couples do, and to also add a twist to the trailer I am going to have the woman in bed with her boyfriend and he gets a text, and she checks his phone and the trailer goes silent, and then the next clip will show him texting her saying 'I'm sorry', and it will be easy for the audience to guess what he is done, but to show the text would give away the story and be to obvious, and to retain mystery I would just show her looking at the phone. The trailer will end with her getting ready for something with a lot of people around her, and this will keep the audience guessing, whether she was getting ready to just go out, or getting ready for her wedding. As I have a male in the trailer it will also be aimed at males, and this goes against conventions of romcoms as most romcoms aim at women, and the trailer will also be aimed at women from the ages of 18-30.