Film poster research-Will

1. Kidulthood

Narrative,

·         You can tell that certain characters may be linked by the closeness of them, like the two in the middle who you would guess are a couple.

·         The character on the right hand right looks like he could be the protagonist. I think this because he is kind of in the shadows and dark colours indicates bad. Also there is a kind of silhouette on the character adding to his mysteriousness, plus he is holding a baseball bat which in England is considered to be a weapon because not many people play baseball.

        Genre

·         I think the genre could be drama because there is obviously the antagonist in the centre and two the right is the bad guy and because the person on the right has a baseball bat I guess there will be a heightened level of tension between the two, I think this because the villain always gets in the way of the hero.

 Audience and Representation

·         The audience is for the teenage market I think this because one all the characters are about that age and the audience can relate the characters because the film is supposed to be a representation of the life of a teenager in inner city London.

·         Also the first part of the title kidult, tells me that it’s about late teenagers because this is the stage where you are turning from a kid to an adult and in the first part if the title these two words are combined into one.

·         Also the second word hood, which is a slang word used for inner-city deprived areas which have some crime indicates that this is where it is set and therefore who it represents, also the ethnicity of the characters indicates that it represents inner-city life.

2. Mean Machine

Narrative

•     The character on the left seems to be the main character in the storyline because of his positioning in the poster; he is at the forefront of the poster. Also the characters to the right of him have some importance in the storyline, but you can tell the will be the supporting cast because of their position at the back of the poster meaning they have less importance, maybe they could be his friends. Also everyone is dressed in blue, but one of the characters is not this could indicate that this character might be special in relevance to the story. Plus at the bottom of the poster it says ‘kickkin off’ and a ‘kick off’ is what you do at the start of a football match, this would suggest along with the characters holding footballs in the background that there will be a football match in the story somewhere.

Genre

·        Due to the menacing look of the main characters face on the left it could indicate that he is a criminal so it could be a crime/drama film. The font of the title looks like the writing that you would get in an old western movie and they had allot of crime in them, so this is also evidence that this movie has something to do with crime. Also as I mentioned at the end of the last paragraph this could be a sport film.

Representation

•      As I mentioned earlier the characters are all in the same clothes, apart from one who has a different colour shirt and trousers. The clothes are all very plain and simple and everyone is wearing the same clothes so this could indicate that they are prisoners because in prison everyone is given the same thing to wear. So this poster is representing criminals also with the footballs this might indicate that they were football hooligans. All this links back to my point earlier that the genre is crime.