media studies prelim task gcse. reminder - conventions what are the conventions of teen movies?...
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Posters What is the purpose of a movie poster? To sell the movie To let the audience know who is in it To let the audience know when it is on To tell something about the story of the movieTRANSCRIPT
Media Studies
Prelim taskGCSE
REMINDER - Conventions
• What are the conventions of teen movies?
parties
alcoholromance
proms
cliques
conflict
rebellionfriendship
High school
alienation
Posters
• What is the purpose of a movie poster?• To sell the movie• To let the audience know who is in it• To let the audience know when it is on• To tell something about the story of the movie
Posters• What are the conventions of a movie poster?
Title is large and either at the bottom or top
Large image, filling most of the space
No text over the characters’ faces
Actors’ names at the top. Often in capitals
Font is carefully chosen – here to create mystery and romance
Lots of light on characters
Colours – carefully chosen to create mood. Here, soft oranges to link to time of ‘twilight’
Image carefully chosen to give information about movie – here romance – profiles of main characters before a kiss
Credit block at the bottom to give industry information
Release details Company logos
Homework
• Choose three of the posters below and write your own textual analysis of them in annotations around the poster
A* - B• Detailed analysis of three
posters• Lots of comments about
WHY certain elements are chosen
C• Analysis of three posters• Some comments as to why
certain images, fonts, layouts used D
• Annotations of three posters• Comments tend to DESCRIBE
the elements, rather than analyse
TASK
• Your task is to make one of the posters below in pairs.
1. Choose your poster2. Plan your photoshoot - costumes, props,
who will be the model(s)3. Write necessary details in your planner for
NEXT lesson
Planning photographs• Do your photos need to be landscape or
portrait?• How much of each person do you need to see?
Close up Medium shot Long shot
Poster
• Create a Media folder in your h drive and call this unit Teen Movies
• Create a blank document in Moodle• Search through dafont to find correct font• Layout the poster in Publisher for all except
the photograph