Textual Analysis - Film Poster 2 - Pulp Fiction

After a glance at Tarantino's poster for Pulp Fiction, I am drawn to the image of the women surrounded by the props around her. In analysis to the props chosen to be included with the women have been carefully crafted to form a code of the films events and themes. The film style Film Noir is heavily incorporated in this poster with the props such as the "cigarette", the "hand gun" and the venetian blinds in the background.

In response to the colours used, there is a great juxtaposition between each colour that is used. Opposition colors have been used for the main headings with red & yellow

Textual Analysis - Film Poster 1 - The Sweeney

From an initial glance at The Sweeney film poster my eyes are automatically drawn to the serif font, "SWEENEY". Many codes have been incorporated within the text with the use of text effects, primarily achieved through image manipulation software. Bullet holes have been added to the text providing emphasis on the films heavy action. Secondarily the metallic 3D effect on the text gains the poster power and the colour silver could also be symbolic of the police badge, being the film is based around London's "Flying Squad".

The conventions of the strap lines have been followed but the grey serif text seems hard to see and provides very little premise. Alternatively the designer could have decided to do this to provide a sense of ambiguity to the film.

The background of the poster incorporates the recognisable London Skyline creating the environment and setting for the film.

In contrast between the two protagonists portrayed by "Ray Winstone" and "Ben Drew" both include their character in the poster. Notably Winstone is positioned in front of Drew providing a hierarchy system of the two. Winstone's acting integrity opposed to Drew is much greater. In response to this, the listing of starring cast included is ordered by integrity of the actor with "Ray Winstone" then "Ben Drew" and finally "Hayley Atwell" whose picture is not shown. From a feminist critical view, the film poster is advertising a masculine dominated film and providing little consideration of equality of women in the Police.

In conclusion to this poster, visuals of character are highly dominated with a male integrity advertising the film primarily to the male audience, thus limiting its target audience.  

Before & After Image Manipulation

Example 1

This image, when compared highlights some of the models blemishes and wrinkles however if the before image was just shown, they would be barely visible. 
The tools that have probably been used here are the spot healing brush to quickly remove those unneeded blemishes. Also the clone tool may have been used to replace a part of the face/body with an other section to hide a feature.
When studying the ethics of this, it is providing  a negative outlook as it is openly suggesting that young women need to have pure and beautiful skin in order to be a success.

This manipulation (right) is a good example I could study for my coursework. The before presents a girl standing in the center of the foreground with a fairly boring atmosphere for the background. 
The designer who has manipulated this photo has most probably used the polygonal lasso tool to cut out the girl in the center allowing removal of that boring background.
In order for the girl to match the background colouring, a colour correction tool would have been used to create a more realistic effect between the foreground and the background creating a non-artificial look.

The final image I have chosen to analyse is this soldier. Before the manipulation has been taken place the character lack lighting and is just shown with basic props.
Once the image had been opened in photo manipulation software, the use of cut and paste has bee used to apply the fake tattoos to the characters arms. In reference to photo number 2 (above), colour correction has again been used to allow the character to be brighter and much more vibrant. 
The use of the stripes across his body gain the image more kinetic energy making it alive and more exciting. 

Welcome to my blog!

Hello,
Throughout my A2 year of my Media Studies course, I am going to update this blog consistently to show my development in the learning and creative stage. My project consists of me making a 5 minute short film, a magazine page and a film poster.  
My current skills that I have, primarily have been learned and developed in AS. Currently I have an ammeter skill level using Final Cut Pro. This video software was used last year to create a 1 minute introductory video last year, and I managed to understand the basics of editing, however I lacked skills to add great special effects that I hope to gain this year.
 Secondarily, I have a great understanding in Adobe Photoshop, and this year I hope to