Conventions of a Diary

Many times when people keep diaries they write about how they feel. People also sometimes write about their encounters with God and their prayers to God. This is similar to how people can go online to Prayer Journal to keep a record of their prayers.

The movie Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts is a good example of someone traveling to a foreign country and working on their religion. She travels to many different countries and along the way she develops an understanding of herself.  She eats in Italy and finds the power of prayer in India.
Eat Pray Love Movie Trailer - This movie is a great example of how someone can find themselves through travel, friends, food, and prayer.

Another website that focuses on writing down prayers into a diary format is: A Prayer Diary. On this website the host writes down here prayers for people to read.  She also incorporates pictures that go along with what she is praying about.  Her page is kind of like a blog.  She will post each prayer and there is an opportunity for  people to comment or simply just enjoy what she has to say.

Though many people think that diaries are usually just teenage girls gushing over a guy that they have a crush on, many times they are a lot deeper then that. Though keeping a diary about your prayers may not be people first choice when they write a diary, it is a great way to write down your thoughts.  Diaries are never one specific type of writing, merely because what is being written is all about the author and how the author views life. So there can never be a right or wrong way to write a diary.

Conventions of a Diary

In most diaries, people tend to write about love.  They are usually written by girls.  Girls really enjoy writing about what boy they may have met on a particular day.  They then write all about that boy.  They usually tell all about his personality, what he looks like, and how she met him.  Girls in diaries always seem like they fall in love with the boy very quickly.  They do everything they can to see him again.  Sometimes they spend time with him everyday for the next couple of months.

In many movies, girls go on vacation and fall in love.  They typically go to Rome.  Two movies that display a girl going to Rome and falling in love are Letters to Juliet and When in Rome.

Here is the movie trailer to Letters to Juliet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqva2klb9E4

Here is the movie trailer to When in Rome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsb8U014Hs0

Convention of a Diary

One kinda of genre that has recently been popular is one where a character will learn from cooking. People will write about how they learned how to cook and following recipes, they’ve learned how to fill other viods in their life or that cooking is their love. This convention genre has been shown in movies for about the past 50 years, but has became quite common in the past few years showing up in a lot popular movies. Two of the newer movies from this convention genre include Julie and Julia and Eat Pray Love. Some older movies that touch on the kind of convention genre are Like Water for Chocolate and Tampopo.

Trailers:

Julie and Julia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjvJHsJD8ic

Like Water for Chocolate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spp68xWBQQo