The following posters are from several films that have influenced my ideas for my trailer project. Because these films were so successful in attracting teenage audience members, I thought about analysing the different aspects they include in their posters. As you can see below, each film has different posters however they are very similar in design. During my research I found that 'Anuvahood', 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood' all have a portrait poster and a landscape poster. I took these layouts into consideration throughout the construction of my poster, what appealed to me was the portrait style of poster.
ANUVAHOOD
Portrait Anuvahood
Landscape Anuvahood
What appealed to you about these posters?
- Whilst I was creating ideas for my poster and prior to that, when my attention was caught by all of these film posters, I appreciated the idea that all of the "main" characters are present on each of the posters. For Anuvahood the two main characters, are more in the foreground and the majority of the rest of the cast are in the background but also contribute to the effect of the poster. This layout already shows an element of the story without giving too much detail away. That there is tension between the two characters. Similarly with the Kidult and Adulthood posters, all of the main characters, to which the film follows their stories individually and collectively, are visable on the poster. These two movies however, differently to Anuvahood, have all of the characters in similar proportion to eachother. Their cotumes and position on the poster enable the audience to predict what each character is like.
KIDULTHOOD
Portrait Kidulthood
Landscape Kidulthood
- The titles used on these posters also caught my attention. With the posters for Adam Deacon's - Anuvahood, the main title is influenced by the buildings edited cartoon-like in the back ground of the poster. For the portrait poster, the editing of the title, has the name parted into 2 letters going vertically downwards between the "buildings", however for the landscape version of Anuvahood's poster, the lettering placement adjusts in height as the buildings vary in size. This playful title editing interested me towards this film, but I did not feel it was appropriate for my movie trailer. As for Kidulthood, how the title is placed in the portrait poster reminds me of the stickers or grafitti found in the streets of london, where this film was shot and the poster is in keepinng with that, because it is at a slant as well as the credits this also portrays what the film and the characters are like. All of the three films have very contrasting colours in their posters, this is successfully used as the titles are all very eye catching and clear to make it easier to attract their audience members. Adulthood has bravely put their star ratings and film comments in a similar size font to their title name, however this does nont distract from the film name as the colours have been well considered.
ADULTHOOD
Portrait Adulthood
Landscape Adulthood
- The subtle photoshopping techniques all of these posters have also interested me. In all 6 of these posters, the entire image wasn't taken as a whole, the character photo's were individually taken, the backgrounds are edited in, (Anuvahood's background could have been created on a cartoon animated/ comic-look effect programme) and then constructively merged together, overlapping to create a realistic and believable poster. Many things have been considered when doing so, the lighting and shadinng produced on each of the characters would have to be monitored to make the all together photo more realistic, as well as the proportion of each character in relation to another. However in referrence to my poster and magazine cover, I think the ideas I have created in result to these posters and in being influenced by these aspects, I feel it is more suitable for my magazine cover.
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