The Princess diaries

The movie Princess Diaries is a movies directed by “Gary Marshal” who has also made fabulous famous movies like “the pretty woman” and “the runaway bride”. It is written by Meg Cabot and is a novel biased movie. Gina Wendkos  has done the screen play. The cast consists of the very fashionable, very sexy, Anne Hathway. Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo have also portrayed their respective roles very efficiently. The movie is biased on a teenager, Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathway) who is an average teenager – sweet and a little geeky, who ends up discovering the fact that she is a princess and is the Queen’s grand daughter.

The trailer starts with a notice that this film is recommended to all audience. It has been rated as a “G” which is for general audience. The trailer consists of 2 minutes and 20 seconds which is very ideal.

The trailer starts with a point of view shot of the photographers taking pictures. I wide shot of the castle is shown with the luxury cars of the royal family. In another mid shot the door opener opens the limo’s door. The princess is sitting inside but one could not see her. This created curiosity amongst the audience. It made me want to watch the princess dressed up in her royal look.  The background music is very girly, very attractive and lively.  The overall image of the trailer tells that the movie would be a chick flick. The female audience would LOVE it. Every girl dreams of having her own fairytale and this is the one I had dreamt off *no jokes*.  

A good technique is used while the editing is done. The trailer is itself divided into two parts. One of it is where Mia is just an ordinary teenager. She is more of a nobody. On the other hand there is the other part of the trailer where she gets to know that she is the princess, being the Queens grand daughter.

In some of the mid shots, long shots, master shots Mia is shown along with her cat. In the rest of the shots she is shown with her best friends. The costumes are overall very nice. Some of them are royal where the castle an royalty is shown. Where as in the rest of the trailer, random everyday costumes are used to portray Mia’s everyday life of an ordinary “GEEKY-FASHION-DISASTER” teenager look :P

The characters are well portrayed and established. Her mother is shown as a middle classed woman by the way she dresses up, carries her self and spends her everyday life. Mia’s best friends too are shown as a middle classed geeky teenager who is very possessive about Mia as being her best friend. Mia’s grand mother on the other hand is shown to be very respectable, very decent, well maintained, well mannered woman. She has all the qualities that one would expect in a sophisticated queen would contain. She has the Diana cut. She dresses up very formally. She is never lazy and is always active.

The funny tidbits of the trailer were when Mia was shown messing up with things. Things never went smooth with her. The way she is shown breaking the glass, makes the area get on fire and eat in an ill-mannered way was hilarious. The shots are well edited in a good continuity. One could not feel the changing shots. Everything seemed so smooth. My favorite part was when Mia is groomed. The way she is taught about how to act like a princess was hilarious. Her mistakes were childish yet I loved the trailer.

The trailer was amazing. One of the best shots from the movie were combined together to form it. It was successful is targeting the audience. Good music and nice comedy has been done. I’m sure everybody is going to love the movie as the trailer has done the magic!!