Ancillary task research;

Film posters & Magazine covers

Sam Jones

P.S I LOVE YOU-FILM POSTER

The red font shows the romantic genre in the trailer. Also because the font is curly and not bold or big, it gives a gentle emotional impressions

of the trailer.

The plain white background could

symbolise the idea of heaven, because

Gerry dies in the film. The white could also show how careless

they both look in this picture.  

The man looking down onto the woman shows that these are

they two main characters in the film and that despite the fact that Gerry dies, this picture makes

them look in love and that he is looking

over her.

Because Holly is not directly looking at Gerry, it shows that they have been separated and that she knows he is there in

her thoughts, but not in person. She is shown smiling

because she knows he is always still there. Her position of laying down could show how

she is dreaming.

CHARLIE ST CLOUD- FILM POSTERThe tagline on this poster

speaks to the audience and makes them curious of why

maybe Charlie is not living his life.

The poster shows a mix and contrast of Charlie (top) and him with his

brother Sam (bottom) to maybe show the problem

that Charlie has in the film, between picking to move on with his life, or

choosing to practice baseball with Sams’ ghost

everyday.

Because this poster only shows the male characters, it doesn’t

show iconography that this film is a romance, but does use the

setting of the lake with boats and trees to give the impression that

the film is emotional and problematic.

Charlie is shown on the poster as looking up as it could symbolise him

looking up to his brother who passes away in the film.

The brown and black font have been used to stand out from

the white/blue background and the front goes from bold to

thin, could show Charlie’s life changing after his brothers

death.

Harry Potter- Magazine coverThe headline of the magazine is slightly hidden by the main

image, but because the magazine is so widely known, it

is able to be understood and read without reading the middle part of the word

‘Entertainment’.

The cover also shows what will be inside the magazine that

links with Harry Potter. It shows ‘Exclusive photos!’, ‘The

ultimate Harry Potter pop quiz!” and a ‘Special preview inside!’. This persuades the audience to

buy the magazine.

These are other stories that will feature in the magazine. Although the main attraction to this cover is all about the Harry Potter film, it

still shows the audience that there are other stories about actors and

other film features inside.

This is main story on the cover and it links with the image of Harry Potter. The house colour of blue black

and red separate the stories up so it is easy to tell the

titles from the story information.

The main image of Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) is

presenting him directly looking into the eyes of the camera. His posture of twisting to the right and pointing his wand

shows direct communication to the audience.

Because Harry Potter is so well known, it doesn’t need to have Harry on the cover for the audience to know which film it is featuring.

Twilight movie- Magazine coverThe blue bold magazine title

stretches across the top of the cover so it makes it clear which magazine this film is associated

with. ‘The Entertainment’s magazine company title is blue and

bold which could represent the interesting and big films that features in their magazine.

The issue date and barcode identifies it as a

magazine cover.

The main image of the two ‘vampire boys’ are

recognisable worldwide as starring as main characters in

the Twilight films. Because they are so popular, the main

image of them on the front cover could automatically

persuade the audience (mainly girls) to buy the

magazine. The small text on the right hand side in story information that is inside the magazine. They have made it smaller compared to the rest of the

text because the main film is Twilight.

The house colour of this magazine is white, yellow and blue. These

colours don’t show the genre as a romantic movie (which Twilight

could be considered as) but represents it as mixed gender film

with action but also happiness.

Although the magazine cover has the film title on it, most people worldwide would be able to identify this film as ‘Twilight’ due to the picture featuring Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.