Melodrama Trailer Analysis - The Notebook

Here is my analysis of the trailer for 'The Notebook'.

• The trailer begins with calm, romantic music.
• The mise-en-scene portrays a romantic setting within several clips, for example canoeing in the river and riding bikes as couples in the woods.
• There is a narration at the beginning of the trailer, describing a boy and a girl meeting and falling in love.
• In the middle of the trailer there comes a problem in the relationship where family, class and status is breaking the couple up.
• There is a lot of separation shown in the trailer, which is a typical convention of the melodramas
• Another common storyline of melodramas is a love triangle, which is shown towards the end of the trailer whereby two men want the same woman.
• Some of the actors in the film are well known in melodramas, for example James Marsden and Rachel McAdams, who also starred in The Vow which i have previously analysed.
• Midway through the trailer the music becomes more dramatic and uplifting.
• The narrator mentions the writer, Nicholas Sparks. He is a well known writer of melodramas and is also mentioned in the trailer for Safe Haven, which I have previously analysed.