The film is called ‘Amour’, French for

‘Love’. The poster is very simple,

perhaps reflecting or contrasting the

films portrayal of this couples love for

each other and their life together. The

image shows a medium close up of

the woman's face, with an over the

shoulder shot of the man who is

holding the woman's face in his

hands. As any image that is on a film

poster is out of context, it is important

and conventional that the audience

are given a symbolic moment of the

film to look at or in this case a

visualisation of the title with the hands

on the face being a loving gesture. I

think that this is effective as it does

not give too much away and the

audience can be left to conjure up a

variety of subtexts from the image.

Another feature of the poster is the

addition of an awards logo above the

title; showing it is a very good film,

enticing an audience to watch it.

This film is called ‘What Richard Did’ and

presents a very simple poster which I

find to be extremely effective. The title of

the film first off leads to many questions.

As an audience we assume the boy in

the poster is Richard. I think the colours

of the poster are very significant, with the

saturation being very low and the neutral

colours used creating a very pure

effective which does in fact contrast with

the film. Again, at the top we have the

merits of the film, this time accompanied

by some film critics reviews to give faith

to the audience that this is a good film. I

think that this film is poster is effective as

it reveals nothing about what Richard did

however the mug-shot like photo and

direct address that the actor is making to

the audience gives us as an audience an

uneasy feel about the boy. There may be

more to him than we are presented with.

This film is called ‘Hard Candy’. This film

tackles the subject of paedophilia. We see

on the poster a girl who is assumed to be

quite young due to the hoodie and satchel,

conventionally teenager-like clothing. She

is standing on a bear trap which instantly

adds some form of shock to the audience

due to the nature of the weapon/device.

We see however, that the trap has not

closed despite the girl standing on the

trigger. This then leads to questions of the

girl being bait. The colour red that the girl

wears has the annotations of danger,

blood, warnings which could very much

change the perspective of the film is the

girl is in fact the antagonist. We are also

given a single quote which talks about the

intensity of the film. Underneath the title,

there are the details of the production

team, with a rating of ‘R’ at the bottom left

hand corner and the producers and

companies along the bottom line of the

poster.

The film ‘E.T.’ is a film by Steven Spielberg.

The poster consists of a full moon, taking

up the majority of the poster, a bicycle

flying across the skyline and silhouettes of

trees a the bottom. The tree silhouettes at

the bottom give perspective to the poster,

showing that the bicycle is very high.

Before the title, we are told that Spielberg

is the director and underneath the title of

‘E.T.’ we are given a slogan-like sentence

being ‘The Extra-Terrestrial In His

Adventures On Earth’. The poster

successfully combines both earth and

outer-space by having the natural trees

and the person on the bike backed by the

large picture of the moon and the night sky.

On this poster, there are no reviews or

recommendations; the director is the

selling point of this film.

This film is called ‘Perfume – The Story of

a Murder’. It has the silhouette of a

woman, gouged into with roses petals

pouring out and flying off. The gouge into

her symbolises the murder however the

petals can symbolise the ‘Perfume’ of the

film. The colour red here symbolises the

blood and the danger of the murderer. At

the top of the poster a tagline tells us that

this film is from the director of another

popular film. It is also revealed that the

film is based on the best selling novel.

Both of these statements give unique

selling points to the audience; opening up

the market to the people who may have

read the book or watched the directors

previous films.