conventions of the genre chick flick:

typical conventions of a the chick flick genre:

• typically in the narrative there will  be a weak character that is a "geek" or finds it hard to get socially accepted, then there will be a lot of popular girls but one main popular girl and the "geek" and the popular girl will both like the same boy but the "geek" will become popular in the end and the boy will fall for her.
• normal location for chick film genre films would be in a school or a flat or built up area  (i.e. in an around New York city for american adult chick flicks).
• the themes that you would associate with the genre chick flick would be: love, revenge, action.
• typical outfits that people where in this chick flick genre films vary it could either be: very stereotypical wear, high fashion, quite "sexy", or them main characters can wear what would be stereotyped as quite "nerdy" clothes. 
• the typical type of filming you will associate with this genre is that if its a British film it will be quite natural lighting, but if it is an american chick flick then they will use a lot more un-natural lighting and there characters will tend to have a warm glow,where British actress's in the genre chick flick tend to look quite pale and natural.