Film Noir
As a class we watched a documentry called 'The rules of Filn Noir'. It explained how a typical film noir would look like. Film noir is a dark American place 'where the sun has died'. There are no rules to be followed and everyone life is a 'cheap little game'. Men are often shown illetrated and weak whereas women are seductive and clever. Everyone is filled with hatred and marriages in film noir are often described as boring. The dark, strong femme fatale of noir is the main female character in film noir movies. Women are given not only sexual powers, but also ambitions. They looking for independence, often economic, and freedom from relationships with men. These women that are masters and possessors of their own sexuality represent a danger to the males.
Typicall film noir
Rainy streets
Men smoke a lot of cigarettes and women wear red lipstick to make them look beautiful; however red also a convention of danger.
Shawdows
Dark - daylight is very rare.
Guns
Typicall film noir
Rainy streets
Men smoke a lot of cigarettes and women wear red lipstick to make them look beautiful; however red also a convention of danger.
Shawdows
Dark - daylight is very rare.
Guns
I had to create two suitable posters that fits the genre of film noir and a modern hollywood poster. As Hollywood is the largest film company in the world, they are able to produce much bigger productions so therefore most of the films are targeted at wider audiences and they generate much greater revenue.
Typical Film Noir PostersAs you can see that the female image is bigger than the male character in all of the three examples of Fim Noir posters. The female is shown powerful and very attractive. In addition, all three posters contain the colour red as this colour represent danger. The poster are very simple due to the lack of availability of techology at that period of time. The font is also very simple.
| Blockbuster Hollywood PostersThe importance of the women role depend on the genre of the film in modern hollywood posters .For example, in romantic films both of the gendre are equally important as this is shown in the "The Last Song'' poster. On the other in action and adventure films, men mostly are dominant whereas women are shown as a victim. Female play minor role and this will be shown by a smaller image of the female character. However this is not always the case as sometimes a female is at the front for action films e.g. "Lara Croft Tomb Raider'.
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Final Modern Hollywood Poster
Planning and Evaluative Commentary
For my film Noir poster I first started of by looking at professionals’ film noir poster e.g. Killers Kiss, Double Indemnity and This Gun for Hire to give me ideas for my poster. In most of the posters the women were dominant and the men images were small. Also the posters were all simple. This made me do a simple poster which dominates the women and a shadow of a man as shadows is one of the main themes in film noir. Unfortunately I did not have enough time as I was helping my classmates for their poster. I took a picture of a boy at first but it did not looked very appealing or suited the category of film noir theme therefore I changed it and made a shadow which looked more creative. My draft for film noir is completely different to my final poster as my draft was very to similar to a professional poster.
I think my film noir poster suits the theme of professional film noir as it is simple and affective. The make up gives an attractive appearance and the eye gives mysterious look; I took variety of different shots and choose the best one. The actress looks innocent but dangerous at the same time. I highlighted the girl's hair, nail and her neck red as it symbolizes blood and danger. Also the title and the tagline are in red to represent hazard. However I could have improved my poster by changing the font of my title
I made several changes to my Hollywood poster. At first, we watched a Hollywood film called ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and then had a class discussion. Sir discussed the ways which attracts a wider target audience and how to get top marks. I first made a draft onto paper and decided to change it because I did not liked the idea; I then made a new Hollywood poster of Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2. I liked the idea of Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2 as it is a blockbuster film but unfortunately my poster did not looked very creative. In the end I decided to make a modern Hollywood horror film poster as I thought I can do many creative things such as blood coming out from the eye or a ghost behind a girl with a dark coloured background. I think my poster will attract 18+ as young individuals are mostly not in favour of watching horror and also people who like horror genre. I used famous people names for the reason that audiences will be aware of the cast and individuals who like watching their films are likely to watch ‘Lost Girl’. They also appeared in Final Destination which is a big blockbuster. It received theSaturn Award for Best Horror Film.I decided to make a rhetorical question as my tagline as it draws the attention of the audience and make them want to watch it. It is also in red to show danger and blood; moreover red is one of the main conventions in a horror film.
My film Noir poster is mainly aimed at male who are interested in crime dramas but the age of audiences is not specific as it could be for both young and older people whereas my modern Hollywood poster is an horror so it is particularly aimed at people who like to watch thriller and horror and from 18+. It is aimed for both genders.
Women dominate film noir posters as they play an important role than men whereas in modern Hollywood it depends on the genre and the storyline. Sometimes women play a minor role like in ‘Sherlock Holmes’, so therefore the images are much smaller. However there are films where women play a major role especially in horror as they are the victim. There is no background image in my film noir poster so that it looks simple and my primary image is of a girl because female have a major role in film noir. My secondary image is a shadow of a man as it fits the theme of film noir.
I think my film noir poster suits the theme of professional film noir as it is simple and affective. The make up gives an attractive appearance and the eye gives mysterious look; I took variety of different shots and choose the best one. The actress looks innocent but dangerous at the same time. I highlighted the girl's hair, nail and her neck red as it symbolizes blood and danger. Also the title and the tagline are in red to represent hazard. However I could have improved my poster by changing the font of my title
I made several changes to my Hollywood poster. At first, we watched a Hollywood film called ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and then had a class discussion. Sir discussed the ways which attracts a wider target audience and how to get top marks. I first made a draft onto paper and decided to change it because I did not liked the idea; I then made a new Hollywood poster of Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2. I liked the idea of Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2 as it is a blockbuster film but unfortunately my poster did not looked very creative. In the end I decided to make a modern Hollywood horror film poster as I thought I can do many creative things such as blood coming out from the eye or a ghost behind a girl with a dark coloured background. I think my poster will attract 18+ as young individuals are mostly not in favour of watching horror and also people who like horror genre. I used famous people names for the reason that audiences will be aware of the cast and individuals who like watching their films are likely to watch ‘Lost Girl’. They also appeared in Final Destination which is a big blockbuster. It received theSaturn Award for Best Horror Film.I decided to make a rhetorical question as my tagline as it draws the attention of the audience and make them want to watch it. It is also in red to show danger and blood; moreover red is one of the main conventions in a horror film.
My film Noir poster is mainly aimed at male who are interested in crime dramas but the age of audiences is not specific as it could be for both young and older people whereas my modern Hollywood poster is an horror so it is particularly aimed at people who like to watch thriller and horror and from 18+. It is aimed for both genders.
Women dominate film noir posters as they play an important role than men whereas in modern Hollywood it depends on the genre and the storyline. Sometimes women play a minor role like in ‘Sherlock Holmes’, so therefore the images are much smaller. However there are films where women play a major role especially in horror as they are the victim. There is no background image in my film noir poster so that it looks simple and my primary image is of a girl because female have a major role in film noir. My secondary image is a shadow of a man as it fits the theme of film noir.