Analysing Film Posters

For our project we also need to do a film poster. As i have in my last post looked at the film trailer for 'American Gangster' I will then anaylse this film poster.



This film poster connotates two men, for which star in the movie. Apart from the image of these two men, we see the text, including the title and the other details of actors, producers etc...



Going back to the image, behind the text of the two men which is edited into a black and white photo effect. I think that this shows the respresentation of each of these characters. The man standing in front of the other man, shows he could have a higher status to the other. Who in a whiter shadowed effect could present a lower status. As we can see as well the man in the foreground is also holding a gun, presenting a character that we can think he will start trouble, be in a gang, a gangster character compared to the man behind him, he wears a police badge, showing he is trusted character, saving crime, from the man who is holding gun.


The colour of a black and white effect, could show the representation of each character of good and evil. The man standing more within the foreground, in the more black edit show a more evil, bad and dangerous character. Whereas the man standing behind him, in a more white edit, show the good character.

Looking at this poster i feel that the audience that would be attracted to this would be highly towards boys, teenage boys and up. The two character, played by two world classed actors also could bring more of an audience into this film of different gender and ages. The Object of a gun also could convey this type of audience as the gender of boys can represent that this film can involve, voilence, crime and gangs.







-Karis