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Romantic Comedies are targeted for a more mature audience, can an animated romantic comedy create the same emotional connection with its audience, using traditional animation techniques, and therefore be as successful commercially compared to movies with real actors.

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I believe that it shouldn't matter how a movie is created, whether it is a 2D cartoon or a film with real people, it is the story line and the directed techniques and elements shown within the scene that can make a movie great. This has been proven with great family movies across all styles of film making. From 'Toy Story' or 'UP' being 3D animated movies, 'The Lion King' being a hand drawn animated film, and films such as 'Forrest Gump' or 'Back to the Future' which are great family films with real actors.

This ideology however doesn't seem as present with other genre's such as Romantic Comedies, or the Horror/Thriller genre. Aside from Family/Kids animated films, it seems there is not as much of a connection to the audience with Animated films.

I would like to look at the film techniques and elements that are evident in existent 'Rom-Com's' and 'Horror/Thriller' movies and see what is used to connect with their target audiences.

I would also look at the more successful animated films and what techniques they use, what animation styles gain more attention, and what makes them so successful.

Then I would like to look into how the film elements and techniques used in the other genre's can be integrated into an animated piece.

If there are existing animated movies within these genre's then why aren't they as commercially aware, I do believe that because the animation industry, especially 3D animation, is still in its infancy and is still growing and developing with technology advancing rapidly, that the films being developed for the box office are very similar to what is expected of animated movies such as 'The Lion King', it is still in the 'comfort zone' in making movies for the same demographic, so it is a possibility that over the next 10 years, with techniques advancing in animation, that studios could start taking higher risks and developing high budget, different 'themed', animated movies.