Consuming the Love Story and the Role of Production

Consuming the Love Story and the Role of Production

Most (but not all) telenovelas are about love. You have to give the audience what they want to keep them coming back for more, and let’s face it, deep down everyone needs a good love story. It is what gets us attached to a show. My telenovela does a good job of this, and it features more than one love story that keeps bringing the viewers back.

         There are certain things that make a love story “epic” and Rubi and Alejandro have all of them. They are both gorgeous—her with her long black hair and perfect body, and Alejandro being tall, dark and handsome. His smile is beautiful, and Rubi has that “sad, nostalgic beauty” that a female protagonist needs. She must be just as beautiful when she cries, and she definitely is. Most important of all they have chemistry. When he looks at her, it’s like she’s the only girl in the world he could ever need. Their body language shows how much they care about each other. Always touching, and holding hands—and every kiss is filled with passion and love and lust and everything that makes a kiss great. It’s the kind of love story that makes you want that kind of love, which is important in a telenovela. People are more likely to enjoy the show whenever it features something like that, and gives the viewers hope for their own lives. While a lot of it has to do with the actors, a good bit is also the production team.

         Without the production team, the show literally can’t go on. It’s filled with writers, and lighting technicians, and camera men—all very necessary aspects to a telenovela. Of course there must be a lot of chemistry involved for a love story to be epic, but a lot of it comes from the background stuff as well. The writers have to write things in a way that keeps the audience hooked. There must be obstacles and times that the couple is together to keep viewers hopeful. Lighting is important, it needs to set the mood for the characters and make things seem perfect. Same with the music: it adds romance to the scene. If they play action type music in a scene that you want passion, it doesn’t work. There needs to be the right type to set the mood you are trying to create, and if you want one of love, the music needs to match that. There is definitely a lot of pressure on the actors because either the chemistry is there or it’s not, But there is a lot more that goes into making a love story epic than the acting itself. It’s everything mixed in to make one love story that people can’t get enough of.