Notting Hill Official Trailer #1 - (1999) HD

This trailer for Notting hill was also produced by Working title institution, and begins in a similar way to Bridget Jones's trailer with the main characters voice over narrative.This strategy will be of great influence to me and Eleanor when producing our own trailer as we may choose to follow the romcom genre. The first shot is a medium shot of the main character being played by "Hugh Grant" a well known actor which is a unique selling point of the film and will persuade audiences to go watch the film. In this scene we see the main character bump into a lady and spill a drink all over her shirt. This is a typical convention of romcom genre boy bumps into girl scenario. We can infer that she will be his love interest as she is given prevalence in this trailer.There are then quick shots of them together as his voice over explains how important she is. There is then a significant shot of him opening his front door to a crowd of paparazzi. This indicates that his love interest is famous as wherever she goes the Paparazzi follows. There is then dialogue of all of his friends repeating her name "Anna Scott" this is done to emphasise how famous she is. And also hints that this may be an issue in the movie . The are rapid shots of him and Anna being together.The next significant scenes are of his friend Spike in a long shot of him posing in front of a mirror in his underwear.Also there is shot of him walking in on Anna while she is having a bath and unzipping his pants to pee before realising she is there. As he is given prevalence and is represented as quite comical and ridiculous we are shown that the genre of the film is also comedy as well as romance as the funny best friend is a traditional cliche of romcoms and is usually the main aspect of comedy in the film.