Trailer analysis - Notting Hill

Notting Hill is a romantic comedy that consists of many stereotypes that are typically shown in romantic comedies. We are introduced to the two characters at the beginning of the trailer, it shows us that the women is "the most beautiful woman on the planet" where as the male character is "least successful shop keeper in  Notting hill" this shows us that they are completely different people straight away. By making the audience see that they are completely different it shows there is a reason they are connected. They meet by accident and end up falling in love, this is very stereotypically in a romantic film. We then meet the best friend of the man who is in the film to make people laugh this is shown when he eats mayonnaise believing it is yoghurt shows us he isn't very well educated but to the audience this is funny.
The target audience is women between 13-18 year old girls and potentially older. In a romantic comedy there is stereotypically a couple who don't have the same status in society, in Notting Hill this happens between the two main characters. The women in Notting Hill she is an high end actress who is well known where as he works in a little shop and is basically a nobody. By using the two characters who live very different lives but fall in love it shows the audience that anyone can fall in love and money and fame shouldn't come in between being with the person you love. Notting Hill has similar characteristics as The Notebook, with that comes a rich girl and poor boy too. They show this in many films to draw in a big audience of women and to make them feel better about who they have fallen in love with.


In the trailer a voice over is used to tell the story of two young people falling in love but also because it makes it easier for the audience to understand and also engage them more.


The reason that they put the actor/actress' name and the title of the film at the end is because they draw their target audience in throughout the trailer and then at the end put the title of the film to make audiences able to remember it so they will go watch the actual film.