Friday, 30 June 2017
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Film Poster Analysis
I wanted my film poster to be more subtle, yet still take inspiration to drum up hype for the film, Hence I took inspiration from two vastly different film posters. Trainspotting was one, because it is vastly clever and incredibly well thought out to attract attention, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because it matches the subtly that I am going for with my film. Hence, I analysed both
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Conventions of a film poster
Connotations
As well as the obvious meanings behind posters, posters very often imply some meanings, which the viewer needs to infer for themselves. For example, in this one, while there features a lot of denotations to show what type of film it will be, with the fact the Anchorage (the words that accompany what pictures are on the poster) mentions 'rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven' to show it won't be a normal film. The Tone and Register(Vocabulary, style and grammar used) however being something of a broken english show the type of man, through connotations. The fact he's holding a knife connotes danger, which combined with his face and the aforementioned writing show that this character is unhinged, meaning that this poster uses both connotation techniques and denotation techniques to sum the film up and attract the audience
As well as the obvious meanings behind posters, posters very often imply some meanings, which the viewer needs to infer for themselves. For example, in this one, while there features a lot of denotations to show what type of film it will be, with the fact the Anchorage (the words that accompany what pictures are on the poster) mentions 'rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven' to show it won't be a normal film. The Tone and Register(Vocabulary, style and grammar used) however being something of a broken english show the type of man, through connotations. The fact he's holding a knife connotes danger, which combined with his face and the aforementioned writing show that this character is unhinged, meaning that this poster uses both connotation techniques and denotation techniques to sum the film up and attract the audience
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