Thursday 16 October 2014

Textual analysis of Film posters

Star Trek (2009) Film poster
This is the film poster for the 2009 Star Trek reboot film. In this poster there are pictures of the main characters in the film, the title, a scene that is from the film, and details about the director, producers and when the film will be released at the bottom. The colours are mainly blues and blacks - other than the red of the fire on the Enterprise in the background - this can have colour connotations of space but also of action, as the colours are dark and blend in well with each other. This therefore makes the film look more like its a serious film than a comedy. The fact that the title of the film is in one of the only colours other than blue and black (gold) makes it stand out a great deal more than if it was in the same colours as everything else. In the background of the poster, Uhura - the woman - is the only one that isn't facing forward, this could have connotations to the fact that she is more mysterious than the other characters in the film and on the cover.

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