Independent British film company: Warp Films

What types of films do they make (+examples)?

• Ghost Stories 2017 (Drama/Horror)
• This is England 2006 (Drama/Indie Film)
• ’71 2014 (Drama/Thriller)
• Dead Man’s Shoes 2004 (Drama/Triller)

 

• This is England

Budget: £1.5 million

Box Office: £5 million

• Submarine

Budget: £1.5 million

Box Office: £3.8 million

• Four Lions

Budget: £2.5 million

Box Office: £4.3 million

 

Film Posters Codes & Conventions

Promotion: known places for film posters include bus stops, billboards, on buses, the underground & cinemas.

You also have to look at capturing the publics eye with the poster, creating enigmas through the use of colour, lighting and other media elements

Icons have an important role with understanding the genre of the film.

Image: Always contain some form of iconography,

Directors, Producers and actors: usually when the director/actor is well known, the names are displayed on the poster are often the main selling point of the film.

Quotes, Recommendations and Rating: Once a film has been screened to critics, the promotion team of a film can re-create posters or
re-cut trailers to include positive reviews, ratings, feedback and recommendations

Awards: Similar to reviews and feedback, when films or actors are nominated for awards- these can be included in the details

Tagline: Taglines are used to hint about what might happen and convey the genre and plot of the film.

Date, Rating & extra info: There are different types of dates
posters can use, they can be precise and use the exact date, or put the month, season or a
simple ‘coming soon’ if the film is still in production.One of the most important parts of a film poster is all the small print information which contains
the name of the director, producers, actors, soundtrack, production company, screenplay, and more, as well as the rating, a website link to find out more- this information is often small as it is not interesting to the audience.

film poster codes and conventions

Features on DVD Covers-

• Movie name
• Age Ratings
• Ratings and reviews
• main actor/actress
• insight into the plot
• film production company name
• credits

Task-

The Fargo film poster conveys the genre through the main image with the use of blood and the tagline “A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere”. The film is set in Minnesota which can be shown through the reference to “nowhere” and snow. The actors in the film are not shown in the poster which suggests that the actors are not well known.The title colour is in red which connotes blood reinforced by the dead body and crashed car. The film includes small credits which references the actors/actresses. The review at the top of the image is the same colour as the title, this is done to hype the film up and to make the public want to watch it. The film follows a true story of events which took place in Minnesota in 1987. There are multiple teaser trailers for the film which depicts the same message to the audience. The main colour scheme is white and red which portrays the setting and conditions which

Tinderella Film Poster

• I like the scrapbook and doodle style of the poster which connotes a teenage girls life as well as the play on words with Cinderella and tinder.
• However I don’t like the emptiness and small doodles and the unclearness of the release date.

Expecting A Gift

• I think that the colour scheme is really good as well as the font gives off a professional overall effect and the positioning of the text is well thought out.
• I think that it could possibly be improved by changing the background colour to white, however I think that the current colour works really well.

The Demon at Night

• The colour scheme works by linking the title colour to the blood.
• I think that there are too many ratings and it is too crowded, the actors names clash with the background.