Task 2: Film Posters & Genres

George Lucas is love is a short film which is based around star wars as this is shown on the poster. Just by looking at the poster makes you think that it is going to be a sci-fi movie as the images and the way it has been placed makes you think this and also it has a tag line which mentions a nearby Galaxy which kind of tells you that it is. Since the colours are all very plain and the characters are also, it doesn’t give too much away about the film as otherwise there would be no enigmas. You can see that this poster has gotten inspiration from the Star Wars film A New Hope as it is presented quite similarly and also the star wars includes ‘in a galaxy far far away’ which also suggests this.

There are specific conventions for all film poster genres as this is shown through a range of different sci-fi posters which include futuristic characters and backgrounds. I have also noticed that they tend to follow the a similar colour theme in most as these tend to be blue, purple, orange, brown, black and white as these colours can represent space and either past or present depending on the colours. You can see there is a major difference between George Lucas In Love and Star Trek as this is conveying a sense of past and present between them both.

 

From the poster it seems like I’m Here is a romantic comedy as you can see that the characters look like there are kind of wearing costumes to cover there face as the male is wearing a box. The movie poster also reminds me of the dear john poster which is also a  romance film. You can clearly see that ‘I’m Here’ has taken inspiration from the ‘Dear John’ poster as they are set very similarly.

For romantic film posters the conventions tend to be a male and female who look like they either don’t get on or who are very close to each other. Film posters also look slightly more brighter and include sometimes very plain backgrounds like Date Night. Most of the time the posters of romance films that include the pair looking like they don't get along can be a convention of a rom-com as this shows the funnier side of the couples problems.

 

You can tell that Across The Hall is a thriller film just by looking at the poster as this gives a hint that the film is going to include suspense. The poster on the left is the original one for the short film whereas on the right is for the same film that eventually got recognised and  made into a full length film. There is an obvious difference between the two as  the feature film seems to have used Photoshop to connect all the different images together whereas the short film has used a still image from the film and added text. Also the feature film has slight hints and images to allow the audience to imagine what will happen whereas the  short film gives a small hint to the blurred out male but very slightly, this is because the short film will want to keep their audience engaged as it gets straight to the point and has no plot twists whereas the feature film will include added information about what exactly happens and how it has gotten that way.

The conventions for thrillers can me multiple things like as you can see The Adjustment Bureau is a Romance Film, Science Fiction, Romantic fantasy, Thriller and Drama combined into one yet just by looking at the  film poster it seems like it is just a romantic thriller as you have conventions of a romance yet altered to fit the conventions of a thriller. Typical conventions for a short thriller include dramatic music, chiaroscuro, shark bite and enigmas.