HANNAH ALFRED - MORE POSTER RESEARCH

SHAME

Narrative: This poster tells me that the story is one of a troubled relationship between the two characters because of the facial expressions and the title of the film 'shame'.

Representation: The images chosen really portray and contrast masculinity and femininity, especially because it is only them in the images, made possible by the size of the images. The man has harder lighting which is typically used when portraying masculinity and the woman with softer lighting to portray her as more femininity.

Genre: The poster seems to be a Drama. We are shown this because the facial expressions of the characters really convey strong emotions and emphasis is on them. Quite often dramas involve people of the opposite sex as well.

Target Audience: The target audience is at least 18 years or older because of the age certification on the bottom of the poster. 

JUNO

Narrative: This poster tells me that the story is one of teenage pregnancy which is given away because of the two teenagers that has been chosen as the main image with the girls belly bump made prominent by her sideways position.

Representation: The images chosen represent teenagers perhaps in a negative way because  we see a very young girl who is heavily pregnant and a confused looking teenage boy, which has bad and challenging connotations. Masculinity is not represented traditionally because he doesn't have some stereotypes of males being very confident and stern, he comes across more weak than the female character which is a more modern concept. The girls representation isn't stereotypical either because she isn't loving towards the male character as perhaps some would expect a female to be in her situation and her body language is turned away from him, she seems more confident and mature than him.

Genre: The large quotation shows that this is a comedy because it uses words like 'funny'. The body language of the male character is quite humorous as well.

Target Audience: The age rating for the film is PG-13 however I think the target audience is perhaps a bit older than that because of the issues the film deals with and the age of the characters.

MY DRAFT

Narrative: This poster tells me that the story is about the two teens in the picture and by their body language we can tell they have a somewhat awkward relationship but also the girl is perhaps more intrigued by the boy as she is more turned towards him. The title 'CROSSING PATHS' also gives a hint that perhaps it is something to do with the two characters 'crossing paths'.

Representation: There are four groups that we can see are being represented in this poster: masculinity femininity, teenagers and ethnicity.

Genre:The quotation used something like 'witty' will show that it is humorous therefore comedy.

Target Audience: The target audience is shown by the age of the characters- teenage. 

PRACTICE

In order to create a really professional looking poster I needed to practice my photo manipulating skills. So I did the task of trying to recreate an already established successful poster that has used the technique of manipulating photos itself. 

Here is the original and my version. There are obviously a lot of differences between the two because I had to get all of my own images off the internet myself. Then I had to combine all the separate elements of the images one by one - like the background, the three separate characters, the pier and the the text. I can now use these skills I have learnt when creating my own poster.