Analyzing Film Trailers and Film Posters
Film posters come in a wide range of styles. Most have appealing pictures or slogans that appeal to a particular audience and some just try to appeal to everyone. They all have something in common. Anchorage and eye catching devices, some even have alliteration. You can find them almost everywhere like cinemas, town centres, bus shelters, on the sides of busses, magazines and on the internet. They are all trying to do one thing, persuade you to spend money on their film.
I am going to describe and explain what makes a good film poster and then I shall give an example.
I am going to look at the general make-up of film posters.
Usually a film
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If a popular name is used here people are likely to think that the film is good. Below this is the name of the film being advertised in a font and colour that contrasts and stands out from the background. The name of the film has to stand out from a distance so there is no mistaking the name of the film and it is recognisable when going to buy the film or see it at a cinema.
At the bottom of the poster in a small print text is the credits of the film. No one can see this section of the poster from a distance and nobody really bothers to read it. These are here for copyright purposes and so that if people wanted they could find out who the director, writer and producer of the film is.
At the bottom or in the left hand corner of the poster is the release date of the film being advertised.
The poster is usually in colours that stand out from the competition without loosing the theme of the film. E.g. A comedy would not be in dark black colours. The writing on the poster has to stand out in a font and colour that will attract people's attention. It must be easy to read.
I am now going to look at the above issues on a film poster advertising
"THE BOURNE IDENTITY"
The main piece of anchorage is a large picture of Matt Damon from the top left corner to half way down the poster to the centre. This is good because many people know what Matt Damn looks like and know
A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.
eyes of the villain, this is a very long, in time, shot of the same
(Just as a side note, I had pictures of the posters in the original paper but couldn 't transfer them to here. The first link in the bibliography has tons of WW1 propaganda posters you can use.)
The sixth line states that the Vinyl Poster/ Banner printing by USC Printing will cost $280. I will be ordering two Vinyl posters that will serve as titles for the exhibition. One will be hung on the wall and the other will be placed in the glass cabinet that will also be used for the exhibition. The cost of printing each poster will be $15 plus a $60 per hour compensation fee and a $5 proof. To be safe, I am stating that the compensation fee will be for two hours, totaling $120. This totals to approximately $140, so times two, the cost will be $280 dollars.
Mayans, Aztecs, and Spanish-Mexicans; these are the stepping stones to the Mexican people of today’s world. Each had their own way of doing things and built upon each other in every aspects of life. The food customs and what is consumed has not changed in as much what is now considered a delicacy and what is considered normal in their culture. These customs compared to the Western culture seem naive, native, and uneducated. Where did these customs come from? What traditions are kept? What needs to these met? These questions will be answered in the following paragraphs.
also been used on the stills from the film on the back of the box
The genre of the film is far more evident in the poster for ‘The World
Culture is defined as the boundary between different people from different ends of the earth. For my project I had to interview another person from a different culture. This was difficult for me because I had no idea where to start because I didn’t know what made my culture specific to me. I found my interview subject relatively fast and I sat down and asked the questions. I found my subject from my boss I interviewed my bosses boyfriends sister and we went at it.
In 1957 he was co founder of Push Pin Studios in New York, where he executed designs for record covers, books, and posters. The Bob Dylan poster was created in 1967 and the transcending subject and function of this image became a symbolic crystallization of its time (Kiehl 28). The brightly-colored pattern in Dylan's hair, inspired by Islamic design, contrasts against the black silhouette of Dylan's profile. The energetic design with its swirling streams of color evokes the visual effects of the psychedelic drugs that were gaining popularity amongst members of the culture. Glasers took inspiration from the Art Nouveau era. The organic shape and line of the hair shows characteristic of Art Nouveau. He also took inspiration from a black and white silhouette cutout by Marcel Duchamps. Glaser says it was in the back of his mind when he created the Dylan poster. Glaser worked in an illustrative, often playful style that offered an alternative to the utilitarian sparseness of the Bauhaus tradition brought to the United States (Collins 31). This conceptual image style poster is different from the one during the pictorial modernism era because it is more stylized and colorful. His poster of Bob Dylan is one of the most memorable images of the 1960s, embodying for many people the spirit of the period (Heyman
The beginning of the film also used a shot that had a variety of newspaper headings with someone flipping through the newspapers in order for the audience to see all the headings. This has been repeated in many movies since, but now it is done digitally with fancy effects like the papers spinning.
What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?
The posters are particularly captivating because they are both informative and visually astounding. Each poster engages the audience at many levels. In each
I shouldn’t leave you in the dark, so here is one of the excerpts we found, and the only I bothered to take a picture of:
Being a social worker will not be an easy job but it will be a rewarding job. The reason I chose this field of study is because I have had a few different family members whom have children and failed to care for. One family member, in particular, has been in and out jail for drunk driving, drugs, and domestic abuse on several different occasions. She has three children and only has full custody of one of them. The other two children live with their dad and they come and stay with my grandpa every other weekend. The one she has custody of is the little boy that is 10 who lives with our grandpa, who just recently found he has cancer and is only expected to live two more years. My grandpa does not have any legal custody of him but has taken care
When the task of creating a film trailer was first put to us, I had