Outsider

This poster indicates you a horror genre of the film, this is because you can tell by the colour that poster has (dark colour such as black). It also include billing block at the bottom of the poster this is because it shows the credit of the film. It has a picture of a road which matches with the title of the film 'Outsider' because the road shows someone coming from different place and it has no traffic because again it means that the person who will arrive will be unknown to everyone. It has a tagline 'See things you don't' which is used for marketers and film studios to advertise and sell the film, how ever this creates excitement to its target audience. In the poster it also gives you hint of the characters such as who's the unknown person is on the left side of the poster. However theory of Barthes  come in that narrative is interwoven with multiple codes. As we look at this poster this may refer to the hermeneutic (mystery) enigma code because the story of not fully explained and its hold back to increase the effect of the final revelation of all code. It also show the action code because it builds interest and suspense by looking at a angry character face.

In this film their will be group of friends going away on a holiday. They are friends from college and celebrating together of finishing college. The name of the characters are James, Steven, Laura, Sammy and Mark. The props that may include in the film are Games console such as psp because the boys like playing games and this will show their what character type they are. We also need  mp3 because the girls will be into music and there also will be use of mobile phones during the film scenes. As I have explained the features on the poster which shows its a horror film, I will look forward to use the sound during the film which will grab the audiences attention.

Mainstream feature film poster & how they are different from Short film poster

The film 'Gladiator' is directed by Ridley scott. This is a mainstream film poster where the main character of the film is standing with a sword which this also can tell the genre would more likely to be Action. The enigma code of this film also supports Barthes 'The proairetic code', which is building interest and suspense.  However there is a similarities between 'Across the hall' where one of the character is with ha gun. The audience will be able to tell the story of the film is set in past where there use to be gladiators and can also tell by the clothes his wearing and the armour. The background of the poster shows Coliseum in Rome which again it shows the location of the film. As you can see this poster there is not much of writing included because they may not want you to give out any future information and keep the audience in surprise. However the short film poster 'George Lucas in love' has given out more detail to give the audience a hit what the film may be about. e.g. 'Dozens of years ago, in a nearby galaxy...' Even the colour of the poster can still indicate you that its based in past. The colour of the  poster 'Gladiator' uses brown to make the film ancient. Mainstream film poster have the billing block at the bottom of the poster.

Short film posters

As you can see this poster of  'George Lucas In Love' it is set out as a animation, this will attract younger audiences. The genre of this film is romance, however Denis McQuail refers to the commercial and industrial significance of genres where producer target audiences and capitalize on the success of previous film. In poster you can see more than one character which this shows the main character of the short film. Which this allows you to give you more detail about the film. On the bottom of the poster it has the starting of the characters so the viewers will know who's in the film. The poster is in brown  which this may show to the viewers that its in the time of the Victorians. The font colour is in white which this stands out, however its in standard font, which they may not create much of excitement to some audience. E.g. if you look at the mainstream films title they are more stylish which stand out with the picture and they layout of the poster. The poster is covered up with pictures and title and has no free space which gives out plenty of information to the audience.




The poster of 'I am Here' shows two Robert couple sitting together this can tell you the genre of the film which is Romance. Christine Gledhill says in relation to the mass media, genre is part of the process of targeting different market sector. At the bottom of the poster the picture gets out of focus which this stand out the starting of the character in white font. The title of the film is in the middle poster and is in large font which can grab audiences  eyes. The poster has different contrast, the upper part is bright with sky and at the bottom is out of focus how ever the title still stands out in the middle. It also has a slogan underneath the title 'A Love story is an absolute world' this also indicates you to show the genre of the film which is Romance. It enough writing on because the title of the film covers most of the space of the poster.








The genre of the film looks more like Thriller because of the picture of the character with the gun. It can also involve crime in the film. The pictures of the character in the poster are divided. This show the main character of the film. The name of the title also matches the picture with the person with a gun because its in the hall. However the poster more looks like mainstream poster because of the lay out of the pictures and the starting names of the character which is at the top. It also has less writing on because the  picture of the character shows and tells you what the story may be about.










How ever if you look at the other poster of 'Across the hall' this doesn't show much of an mainstream film poster because its not professional as the first one. The layout is also different, the picture is taken from one of the scene. The picture shows a scared and not trustful relation between the character because of his impression he has made ans shows that his hiding from the person who is walking towards him. This poster has a billing block at the bottom of the poster, which shows the credits of the film. However the one above this poster hasn't got one.







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Coursework

Introduction:
Hello, I have been asked to work in group of fours or threes. we are told to create a short film which last for not more than 5 minutes. we have to pick 2 ancillary test out of 3 to advertise our short film, such as Poster, create double page sprede film magazine or create a advertisment on the radio.