Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Film Poster Analysis - The Notebook

 
When looking at this film poster, the first thing that really stood out to me was the feature picture. It automatically told me that the story was about a man and a lady who potentially fell in love, so straight away I felt like I knew something about the story. This also helped me as a viewer straight away decide on whether I would enjoy the film, as it shows that it is obviously based around romance, so if im interested in romantic drama or romantic comedies, I would probably be interested. However, if I was interested in horrors for example, I would know it wouldn’t be my kind of film. Then you have the names of the main and most famous characters in the film, for example: Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdam’s are very well known, Gosling mainly known from being in the film “Crazy, Stupid, Love” and McAdam’s famous for her role in Mean Girls playing “Regina George”. Straight away, this would either bring in the audience or turn them away, as if someone was to look at this poster and be big fans of the famous names on the poster, they’d be interested in going to see the film – however, if they weren’t big fans, they probably wouldn’t.
Below the names, there is a sentence saying “From the best-selling novel” – this would indicate to the audience that the storyline is obviously very popular, so the film will probably be very similar and a big success. The film title is also in a bold black font, making it clear to the audience what the film is called. The colours used on this film poster are blue, white and a hint of green. The colour blue to me resembles depth and stability, trust, loyalty and wisdom, which almost sums up a romantic drama film. The colour white is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity and is also considered to be the colour of perfection. The colour green symbolises the hope and growth and almost lack of experience of someone. These colours altogether symbolise exactly what the film gives off, romance, innocent, trust, perfection. The colours they’ve used tells a story on their own.


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