The Notebook
(Romance genre)
The trailer starts with non diegetic sound of music peacefully playing in the background as the audience are introduced to two characters in the film, they are peacefully in a rowing boat which is very stereotypically romantic and sets the scene very nicely. There is also white swans swimming around the lake which also suggests that the two people in the boat are in love and they have not been together long suggesting their relationship is fresh and they are in the first few months of romance. The colour white suggests purity. A bird's eye view shot is used to show off the beautiful lake. The trailer then changes to a medium shot as two bikes begin to cycle towards the camera, this also conforms to our expectations of romance as they are doing activities which keeps their relationship exciting and fresh. Non diegetic sound of dialogue is of a narrator describing what is happening to the couple and what will happen in the trailer. The voice is very calm which also suggests that it could be the young actor in the film describing his life with the love of his life.
The trailer introduces us to the two main characters and they are very opposite, one is rich and one is poor. This suggests that the film will be about two young people who not allowed to be together. A medium shot is used as the boy asks out the girl, although he jumps up on to a ride to force her to go out with him. This stereotypically conforms to our expectations of a "poor" boy who is trying his hardest to get someone who is stereotypically a lot better than he is. He comes across as a very confident boy as he is hanging off the ride he gets the girl to say twice that she wants to go out with him. This automatically connects with the audience as they will fall in love with the character, especially the female audience and they will want to be in a relationship like this where the boy does everything he can to win her over.
The audience are also introduced to an older couple, we realise that the non diegetic voice over the top of the trailer is being spoken by the older man who is telling the story to an older female. The audience will be wondering who these people are and where have they got this story from. Both the younger girl and the older lady are wearing red which suggests they could be the same person and the older man is telling her about her life and she might not be very well. Except the older lady does look very well. This will also encourage the audience of the trailer to go and see the film as they will be interested to know what happens at the end of the story.
"its like a dream" this suggests that the film fits all our stereotypes for a romance genre film as she is so in love. Although in the trailer we are introduced to her rude, snobby family who do not like him, this also fits to our stereotypes because there is always something that must go wrong in a romance film but usually they all have a happy ending.
At the end of the trailer an advertising voice says that it is based on a true story and that the film was previously a book, the readers who have read the book will definitely be interested to see if the film is as good as the book to the other way around!
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