For my secondary task, I need to create a film poster for my short film 'Solitude'. I thought that I should analyse some current film posters in my specific genre at the moment. The first of my film posters is of 'Snowtown' a gritty independent low budget film about cocaine.
With such a really thought provoking and gritty film, I feel that this poster really does it justice with it obviously attracting the right audience to see the film. For example, the use of a not very well looking main character with a predominant use of red that really connotes rage, anger and death, let's the viewer guess what the film is about as it really connotes murder and anguish. The actor featured on the poster looks particularly vulnerable, weak and ill which again connotes themes of young people and solitude as there isn't anyone else within the frame. The vague outlines of a landscape in the background and the stony wall that is behind the actor really gives an impression into where the film is set, in a poor suburban area of Australia.
"Adolescence is inherently a time of storm & stress when ‘all’ young people go through some degree of emotional and behavioural upheaval, before establishing a more stable equilibrium at adulthood." Stanley Hall (1904). This particular quote fits this poster and film rather well, because it features an adolescent as it's main character. The dirty and ragged outfit that the teenager is wearing really gives the impression that he is poor and stereotyping would lead you to presume that he's homeless or antisocial. The red that features on the poster and the grittiness in the background doesn't give a good impression on the main character as it represents him as a thief or murderer due to red connoting to rage, blood and anger. However, when you watch the film you know that this really isn't true, as this main character is sensitive, ill and innocent but unfortunately gets caught up in trouble. Hall's point is also relative to my poster as I intend to use an image of the child in my film on it, put instead I will be using lots of white to connote purity and heaven, to avoid producing a negative portrayal of teenagers.Snowtown Analysis
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