I found 'love happens' and it gave me a good idea to what kind of style our poster should be in.
It is a romantic social realist film similar to our short film and i thought it would be a good idea to look at how the bigger higher budget films portrayed their film through their film posters.
The posters clearly shows the two main characters of the film on the poster in a medium shot side on, so you can see the actors expressions and emotions which will tell you quite a bit about the content of the film. It clearly shows that the two actors are happy and are glad to be with each other. I also like the way in which the character are in focus more than the background therefore guiding your attention all to the actors alone and not the setting which they are in which tells me that you could learn more about the film by the actors alone than by the setting. This doesn't really apply to our film because we have tried to vary the setting between the two main characters to show the boy as middle class and the girl as working class via setting and props not just the characters.
The audience for this film would be mainly for females from the age of 15 to 30 which is the same section of the market that we would be aiming our short film at. So it would be good to know what kind of style for the poster to be to attract that audience range.
The tagline is very simple and it works well with the title 'sometimes when you least expect it ... love happens' this tag line gives the audience extra insight into what the film is going to consist of and they are going to be able to make further decisions on if they are going to want to see it after that.
For the majority of the poster they have used a white background to keep it simple and still keep the focus on the two actors in the centre. Also the white background shows more clearly the names of the two main actors which are Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhark who are 2 well known actors and they have thought about the positioning of the titles carefully to the make the names noticeable to the viewers of this poster. This i think would be a good idea to use in our film poster, to have the actors name and the title clear with a white background because like in most film posters they try to make the title as noticeable as possible so people will remember the name of their film.
Ben - this is OK, but there are really no terms here (eg terms for mise en scene - lighting terms for example, composition, camera work). Also, I haven't seen this film (have you?), but I wonder how socially realist it really is? US films with big stars rarely are socially realist. You need to edit this to show that you can analyse the poster using terms and making more direct links to your own film.
ReplyDeleteYou asked how you are getting on Ben - you have contributed actively to editing, that's clear, but you do need to make more contribution to the blog. If you look down the archive, you can see the evidence of this. Most of the posts are from Nicole and Dani, and it looks like you still need to upload your poster idea. The group needs to have selected the poster to proceed with, and a draft for this chosen design should have gone up here by last Friday. Your contribution to the research and planning is currently around a low level 3 (around C-), but could be raised by adding more posts now and editing existing posts. Work harder on the posts and your visibility on the blog.
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