Synopsis– a teen girl who is struggling with mental health issues feels very isolated spending much of her time listening to sad music: she wants to become a singer but doesn’t believe it’s possible for a girl like her. Then she comes across Demi Lavato who was going through similar struggles to her and succeeded whilst showing the lights of recovery, inspiring her to make her own music.

Statement of intent–

I would like to create 2 different posters of a film based upon how music stars can deeply connect with even the most vulnerable people and significantly change their outlook on life. I would like it to show this transition from hopelessness to optimism through the posters. I could do this by using a contrast of colours/ saturation levels and the character presenting a right-frame gaze (Barthes suggests using connotations such as these in order to promote meaning). Both posters will portray anchorage in order for clear connotations and signification. I will use a message reduction technique to allow others to connect easily with the ideas of the film.

The posters will show the internal structure theorised by Todorov (Tripartite narrative structure) which is when there is an equilibrium, disruption and new equilibrium. This will be represented through a flashback of childhood followed by the low state she is in as a teen then her finding Demi Lavato’s music and being so inspired.

There will be 3 main characters: the girl, her bestfriend and her dad. The girl will show a positive stereotype towards the end. In the posters it will only feature the faces of the girl and Demi Lovato to emphasise the strong relationship that is between them.

The type of company that would make my film would be a big cinema company which would later get downloaded to a conglomerate like Netflix to attract a wider audience of a whole generation of people and allow for more private watching alone.

The genre will be a drama however it may be a hybrid genre as there will be a musical aspect to it as well.

I will try to use two different types of background in one of my film posters to show how things change and in the other one I will combine the two situations in one big picture to add a sense of mystery and inquisitiveness. I will use a serif font for the title like all these posters do and included a quote from someone who has watched it in smaller text. In one of the posters I will use a close-up to connect with the character and in the other I will use a long shot to show how the character is dominated by their environment. The signified is the powerful impact music can have on your outlook of life and the signifier is the face expressions and colour tones. The dull colours are a symbolic symbol of sadness, the shape of the trees in the Big fish poster are an indexical sign of fish bones. The film poster A Beautiful Mind challenges the ideology of men having to act strong all the time and is a radical character whereas in Braveheart the main character is presented as reactionary.

Synopsis: “End of the Line”

My movie is about a woman who spends the night out in London with her friends. As she heads to go home, she undergoes the London Underground. Upon arriving it seems to be empty, but she gets on the train anyway. The train is actually a time travel machine and each stop either takes her into the very far past or the very far future. A catastrophic event is going to happen and in order to save the world she must figure it out using the clues from each stop before the train gets to the end of the line.

Statement of Intent:

I intend to create two film posters to advertise my film though including signifiers that aid in expressing my narrative. I will establish the key characters, ideas and themes without revealing the entire plot. My film poster will include the dominant signifier of a young girl who is slightly off centre in the camera positioning. She will be leaning against the wall with the background of the London Underground platform behind her, in which looks worn and tired. She will face the camera but looking to her left and a bright white light will shine onto her face which connotates the headlights of a train shining on her and also how in doing this, a shadow will be cast behind her giving a contrast of brightness and darkness. The dark surrounding space creates a sinister atmosphere and the un-nerving elements of the narrative. This helps to convey the action-movie type with hints of sci-fi and thriller in the genre and the anticipation that naturally comes with it. As the girl is the central plot device in my narrative, I will ensure this image is of a high resolution so it is the main focal point of the poster. In the darkness of my poster I will put my title of the film which will be “End of the Line” which will be written in a red-pink writing and a bold unusual font to give a creepy/dark connotation which will allude to the synopsis of the amount of time that she has to figure the catastrophic event out.

In my second poster, i will include a picture of the right half of the dominant signifier’s face and merge it with a picture of a creepy tunnel with train tracks. The protagonist will be staring straight at the camera with a ring light to dimly light up her face. The picture of the tunnel will also be dimly lit to fill in the darkness from the picture before. At the bottom of the poster i will put the title of the film which will be in a white font and a more neutral font. There will be brush splatters of an orangey-red colour on the font which will connotate to the rust and the tiredness of the underground. There will be another brush splatter of dark red paint on the length of the poster to create connotations of blood which will add to the suspense. i have used the film “Passengers” as my main style model as it has similar themes to my narrative. I imagine that my posters would be produced by a small indie company who were part of a large conglomerate such as “Warner Bros” and the two posters would be distributed and exhibited by a large streaming platform, like “Netflix”.

Example Film posters for inspiration:

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