Poster research By Daisy

Headings: images, message, target audience, mise-en-scene, shot, colour, film genre

Fools Gold

Image- the image in this poster automatically creates a feel that the movie will be a romance. The use of famous characters like Matthew and Kate grabs an audience in. The colour of the poster is very catching. The use of gold’s and blue makes it seem very attractive but yet simplistic. The way that the Kate is wearing a bikini also may attract a male audience. The title is quite attractive as well as the white colour stands out on the gold people. The Gold of the title also complements the gold of the actors. The main focus is on the actors as there are no other distractions. The actors are not looking into the camera but at each other makes us want to watch and find out the catch as it can’t be just as great as it appears.

Lord of War

The image creates instantly gets an audience questioning why he is covered in bullets which seems like a very clever effect making us seem quite superstitious. The simplicity of action in the cover draws us in. The only image is of the main character Nicolas Cage who is also very famous and brings us in. The main attraction is the fact that he is obviously covered in Bullets and complements the words of the title ‘war’. The tile is bold and in your face. There is use of minimum colour and only dark and realistic colours, reflects the seriousness of the film. The genre seems to be war. The white background makes the character stand out. His eyes are a piercing blue colour which sucks us into the world of the character and attracts us into his world.

Funny People -Comedy/Drama

The image is of 3 cheerful looking characters, including Adam Sandler, known for his big hit movies, and therefore will grab the attention of the audience as people know that they are guaranteed a good film in some way or another and he is usually related to comic films increases the interest of that type of audience. The target audience perhaps attracts teenagers and upwards, this is due to the actors being known for their teenage movies, like ‘super bad’, with perhaps some maturity to the story as Adam Sandler has been seen in some more mature films such as’ The Bucket List’ as we relate these actors to past movies.
The message on this poster is quite simple reflecting the simplicity of the poster detail. It seems as thought it wants to create an image of a light hearted and funny film ahead, but with some drama due to the put on smiles on their faces which we all know are hard to believe are true and we know that it will not be a good film without some drama. The detail is fairly minimal almost created a bigger impact focusing on the characters and their lives and the relationships between them.

Titanic- Drama

The image shows the subject and displays the emotion of the film. With two big time actors to grab interest. The people are cleverly just as big as the ship, and we can automatically presume the three things are related. Jack and Rose the two main characters seem to be lying on each other and look quite suspiciously sad we can tell that this will not be necessarily happy story.
There is a message of romance and tragedy by the expressions on their faces. They have displayed the title of the boat and used to as their name of film on the front of the boat towards the bottom in fine white writing that stands out. It is bold and straightforward also reflecting the seriousness of the matter. The target audience is probably towards more of a mature age group due to the lack of bright colours and more rich ones. The Mise-en-Scene shows how classy the boat is that Kate Winslet is wearing a nice dress and smart earrings reflecting her social class and status.

X-men origin wolverine-
Action/ Sci-fi

There is quite a strong image of domineering men here. There is a powerful perspective of villains, each showing their ‘power’. The gradual layering of people shows the importance and domineering postion of the actors in the film. We can see that it is a majority male based film. I think that this would attract an audience of Action hungry teenagers, and older and mainly male audience.

By the anger shown by wolverine we can see that there is some sort of hatred between him and perhaps the people standing behind him, the facial expression shows us allot about there position in the film to come.