Poster Research - Nicole.

I found more research into examples of film posters, and have directly linked them to develop and justify ideas I have had for our own.

* Two Weeks Notice is a social realism based film in a classic rom-com context
* The tagline - “A story about the man who had the girl of his dreams, but never even noticed” –suggests to the audience some clues into what the film entails and perhaps signifies that the story is mainly dominated and about the male character. The word ‘notice’ tactfully links to the title.
*The two main characters in the film are the central and main theme in this poster, with a long shot showing three quarters of their bodies and both of them staring into the camera at eye level. Their body posture is quite loose and almost relaxed against each other. Their body language and position portray the female character to have quite a closed and maybe overbearing personality due to the crossed arms and solid facial expression. Whereas the male character is portrayed as being quite relaxed and confident, with his hands in his pockets and open body position. The fact they are almost leaning on each other to stay balanced suggests they are linked and obviously the two main characters. The fact that the male character is in a suit, in contrast to the female wearing a smart-casual long skirt and purple top, may suggest their differences, perhaps in position in their employment, status and wealth?
*The title isn’t too brash as I think that would take the main focus away from the character, it is in a subtle font and the colours blend in well with the background scenery. The way it is clear enough to stand out is through the fact it is placed between the characters body shapes.
*The background scenery is of a city, which establishes the film is set in a urban environment, which with the male characters suits, indicates a office and work setting? The fact the sea is still and the weather is calm indicates no sort of idea into whether there is a positive or negative connection between the two characters; as for example if the sea was aggressive and the weather was stormy it could represent a negative connotation of the relationship between them two.
*The characters actors names are made clear at the top but are blended into the blue sky, which I feel for a social realism poster adds effect and may be a suitable style for our poster. The other reason I chose to analysis this poster is because links to one of many of the ideas I had for our poster, which is for the two main characters to be standing next to each other but facing opposite directions.
*This poster from what I can see doesn’t give too much away about the film and doesn’t give a great lot of indication into it’s target audience. But if I were to guess, from the title ‘Two Weeks Notice’ - linking to jobs - and the characters age and the actors normal genre/narrative of films they appear in - I would guess it was for a mid aged and both genders audience.

I also searched and discovered there are more than one versions of the ‘Two Weeks Notice’ film poster.


*This poster above consists of a medium close up of the two main characters instead. In this poster the female character is slightly in front of the male character. This poster doesn’t have the full length image of their body, so we can’t discover anything through their body language, position or gestures. But she does have a very anxious and concerned expression which gives the audience a sense of confusion within the character. Whereas the male character has a very wide grinned expression on his face, perhaps showing he believes he is all innocent to whatever is troubling the female. The white background puts the main focus on the image of the characters. And although the female is in the front of the poster, which would indicate she is the main character, there are other signals suggesting otherwise. Because the male’s blue tie matches to a lot of the main titles and comments. Furthermore, the colour blue is often associated with male, emphasising the possibility of the main character being the man.
*The tagline “Over. Done. Finish” is a very assertive and sharp tagline, suggesting the end of this relationship between them, but then the second tagline ‘a comedy about love at last glance’ proposes a last chance.

Finally I found one more poster which again suggests another story:


*I thought this one was interesting, as even though it has a combination of many of the features in the two other posters (e.g. the taglines, both characters in image), it gives out a whole new interpretation of their relationship. The female looks very dominant and assertive as she seems to be playfully tugging at his tie perhaps suggesting a more intimate relationship between them both.

So the first poster doesn’t suggest much about their relationship through the image, the second one shows the male to be the most dominant and the third shows it as the female leading. But my favourite is the first one as it has more too it and leaves the audience guessing and intrigued into what the story unfolds about their relationship.