Bridget Jones Diary Trailer Analysis

Bridget Jones is the typical romantic comedy it is full of conventions that make it one and it is very popular because of this. The director has included many of these conventions within the trailer. This is clever because the trailer is what everyone looks at before they watch the film so the directors want to make it clear that that this is a romantic comedy and by doing this they are also wanting to attract there target audience which is women of any ages but mostly younger groups of women. The trailer starts with the main character Bridget Jones saying how she is going to sort her life out this is a typical convention of a romantic comedy they all have someone who is at a low in there life normally middle aged and then miraculously the love of their life walks onto the scene. This seems as though it is going to happen in this film as well. Next in the trailer we meet the supposedly love of her life and we see that he tries to charm her with his cheesy chat up lines, this once again is a general stereotype in these romantic comedy films. Later on in the trailer we see that everything isn't as it seems as there is another man who has fallen in love with Bridget and he is in fact her perfect man she is just not able to see that yet. This is another convention that is within romantic comedies, two men fighting over the woman. This shows that there must of been some disturbance in the love life of the two of them and this is yet another convention of romantic comedies. We are then shown that there is a fight between the two men later on in the trailer and we could only suggest that this is over Bridget. Another convention of romantic comedies is that there is always a humorous friend, in the trailer we see Bridget with two of her girl friends so it shows that this is definitely a film for women. We also see the parents of the main character Bridget, these are parents who are very sweet and caring and are also very posh this is another convention of romantic comedies.