Film Analysis/Titanic

Titanic: 

On the original titanic film poster, there is a  colour contrast between the the font, the characters, the skyline and the ship. The sleeve of Rose's robe is a beige colour, this matches the lines under an over the word "TITANIC", and this matches the top of the ship; the colour used in this poster is clever and used well. 

The main figures that stand out are the characters Jack and Rose, however the ship takes up the majority of the poster is the fact that it is the main setting of the film. In the poster, Jack has his arms wrapped around Rose, showing that the film is a romantic genre, also you can tell the genre of the film is romance by the way the two characters are looking at each other. This shows that there is romance throughout the film and what that the whole film is based on them, the love story between Jack and Rose is used within the film to emotionally connect the viewers to the ship, so that when titanic actually sinks, we the viewers feel more like we are on board, and we don’t want to see any of the characters to die because they were "meant to be";we  form a connection to them whilst watching the film making the film a little more exiting and by having a make believe story in the film makes the film just a little bit more emotional.

The directer James Cameron is known to direct the best films, Where it says "A James Cameron film"   The designer thought it would be important to have this on the theatrical poster, as it shows the viewers because James Cameron is such a  famous and successful director, the film is going to be good.

Film Analysis/The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight:

The use of colour is clever in this film poster. The fire creates an image of the batman logo, the contrast of burnt orange on black attracts the reader's attention. Before looking at the title of the film, everyone knows what it is because of the logo. Everyone knows the film just by having a glance at the logo so the title "Batman" isn't even on the dvd sleeve because it isn't needed.

The release date for the film is at the centre of the bottom of the poster in a large bold font. This shows that the viewers interested to watch this film cant afford to miss it, which is why it is clear and bold. The tagline “Welcome to a World without rules” implies the darkness of the film and how the film represents dark, scary themes of a world where there is no peaceFrom the poster you can immediately tell that this film genre is action. One reason being is that that includes fire and destruction of a burning building. In other film genres like romance, you wouldn’t see bond font, it would include soft font and light colours.

Film Analysis/The Notebook

Film Analysis

The Notebook:

The image of the man and the woman who are the main characters in the actual film are kissing in the rain, so the image itself is quite stereotypical. This is because it shows what a perfect relationship the two have.The soft colours and the image show it’s a romantic film, also from the tagline which reads ‘Behind every great love is a great story’. It uses the right contrast of colours to express the genre of the film.From the use of soft colours and the image of the man and the woman you can immediately tell that this film poster is based on a romantic story.  The poster is simple but gives clear information about what sort of film it is, for a set target audience.

Sub genres/Horror

Exploring a genre

HORROR

There are lots of different types of horror genres like:

Dark Fantasy: contains fantasy elements with a horror twist, or horror with a distinctly fantastical setting, like Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.

Sci-fi Horror: mash-up of science fiction and horror, usually where the sci-fi aspects (aliens, robots, space travel) are used to precipitate the overriding horror. Like in the movie Alien.

Supernatural: can include ghosts, monsters, dark forces, zombies, or pretty much any creepy thing that can’t be found in the real world.

Psychological Horror: driven by characters’ fears and focused more on psychological dread than on murder, mutilation, and gore. Could be supernatural, but is more often associated with those twists where the protagonist turns out to be insane.

Gothic: involves psychological terror in historically romantic settings, usually including mysteries, ghosts, castles, decay, madness, hereditary curses, and death. Pretty much dominated by Edgar Allan Poe.

Suspense/Thriller: does not involve any supernatural or otherworldly aspects, instead relying on real-life situations to generate horror through serial killers, deadly situations, natural disasters, and psychopaths. Good film examples are Se7en and Jaws (even though it’s pretty unrealistic that a shark gets so hung up on eating people).

Weird Fiction: a primarily historical term for fiction of the 1930s, it predates genre fiction and blended the supernatural, mythical, and even scientific into stories that were ultimately strange, uncanny, or unreal in nature. The term is popularized by Weird Tales magazine.

DVD Sleeve's/Purpose/Audience/Content/Reception.

DVD Sleeves.

PURPOSE:

The purpose of a dvd sleeve is to try and sell it to the audience the film is specified for. The purpose to sell a dvd sleeve is so that you can watch the dvd more than once without worrying about the same film again. A dvd includes a blurb that tells you a bit more information about what the film is about. From this you can tell what genre of film it is and wether or not the film would interest someone.

                                                                                                                                                         

AUDIENCE:

The audience for a dvd is always different as every film will be for a specific audience. On the back of the dvd is usually has bbfc age certificate that will either say U, PG, 12, 15 or 18. Some people buy films on dvd because it is less expensive than the cinema, and also with a dvd, you can watch it more than once without paying again. Or, people who didn't get the chance to watch the film in the cinema or don't like going to the cinema buy the film on dvd.

CONTENT:

The content of a dvd sleeve includes more information than an average film poster. For example:- the blurb on the back gives you more information than the front. The blurb would usually include the special features, snapshots of the film, an age certificate (BBFC), and a credits bar if it isn't  on the front. The spine of the DVD sleeve usually consists of a holographic picture of just an image of the main character in the film. of the there was more than one dvd like a box set, an image could spread across all the dvd sleeves, but for films it usually has just one image. Somewhere on the DVD sleeve it may have ratings and reviews for example, the daily mail could rate a film 5stars, or the sun could the film 4stars etc.

RECEPTION:

You can  usually buy a dvd supermarkets, or rental shops like blockbuster. You can usually find them shelves right at the front of the shop, and these are usually the the latest films that are out. However not all films can be found in stores, so people tend to buy films they cant find on shops, shop online.