Analysing poster

In this blog i will be analysing the poster of This is England. I will talking about where the poster is set in, what the characters look like and what they are doing, the type of colours which are being used in it, the layout and the written text.

The title of the film and the way the title has been written can capture people's attention. The title of This Is England is near the top of the poster and has the biggest font on the poster to make it stand out. The colours of which the title is done in, red white and blue whcih are the colours of the union jack. Also the next biggest font has "Winner Best Film British independant film awards", this would also capture people because they might think if the film has won awards it much be good.Also below the title there are more awards whcih This Is England has won which would make people more interested. The main attractions and key images of the poster is the title because it is the one main thing that captures your eye. The attitude of the character is shown in the poster by them just standing about doing nothing near a council estaste, some of them also look like tugs. This tells alot about the type of charcters that will be in the film.

The main character of This is England is the youngest person there played by Thomas Turgoose, in this poster he comes across as a little tug like the other but the differents is the age and how the other people are in there 20s whereas he is still in school. He is trying to act older than he is because this group is the only place at the moment where he is fitting in. The way he is trying to fit into, is that he is a skinhead like the others in the poster and normally young boys have hair on there head whereas he don't, also he is wearing the same clothing that the other older guys are wearing although the different is that he has to get braces to keep his jeans up.

The character of Andrew Shim "Milky" in this poster is the only black person in the poster, his name is also a contrast because he is black and milk is white,they might have given him this name because they would class him as white and ignore his real colour. He is also looking a different way to everyone else which also implies that he is different to everyone that he hangs about with even though they treat him the same.

The other characters in this poster, are all very similar with the man liking like fugs with their skinhead and the type jeans and t-shirts. The women are similar too with the same hairstyles but some of them are wearing skirts and some are wearing jeans, most of them are wearing boots and the odd one out is wearing hi heels. The two women are standing the same way as eachother with the same legs up and the three women at the end are all standing the same as eachother with their arms crossed.

The other main character who is not actually on the poster is Combo who is played by Stephen Graham, he is the main tyical skinhead who get Shaun to believe in all the tyical skinhead things such as being racist, Combo thought that shaun was a younger version of him and in the poster shaun is wearing very similar clothing to what Combo wears in the film.

The colors in a poster can tell the audience about the mood of the film. In the film poster of This is England, they use red,white and blue on the titlewhich represtents the Union Jack. They used this because it shows the United Kingdom flag whcih not only represents England, but Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.The natural colours such as the blue sky and the colour of the high-rised flats, the pavement and the sheets of metal they are standing infront of, shows that they are not in the richest part of the country and there is not much greenery around the area. This would be the typical council estate were gangs would of normally hung about and this was because there wasn't nothing else to do because the area is not that rich.

The layout of the poster show the main thing on the poster is the title of the film, it also show the main characters that are in their gangs although there is one character who isn't there because he is different and wants something different to most of the people in the gang. The way they are standing shows the most important characters in the middle apart from one character who isn't there, this shows that they are the ones in charge of their gang and what ever they say goes, you would also think that shaun would be near the outside of the line up, but because he is such a strong character, he is in the middle. They are all standing up which shows that even though there is more important people in the gang who make the decisions, they are still equal such as Milky who although is blakc, is treated equally.

In this Poster it says "Summer 1983. A time to stand out from the crowd" this may attract many people to go and see the film because people may be interested in the history of 1983 and what happen in them times. It also might give an insite on the type of genre This is England will be. The poster Tagline for This is England says "Stunning, Unforgettable. A work of Art" this tell us what people think of the film, this attracts more people to go see watch the film because the media is very big influence to the public and if they say something is very good then alot of people would be interested in it.

The unique selling point (USP) of This is Engalnd is that it was made by Shane Meadows who has many film such as Dead man's shoes and twenty four seven. Another USP is the amount of award that This is England has won or been nominated for.