1. GCSE
Media Studies
Prelim task

2. REMINDER - Conventions
What are the conventions of teen movies?
parties
conflict
alienation
High school
cliques
romance
alcohol
proms
friendship
rebellion

3. Posters What is the purpose of a movie poster? To sell the movie
To let the audience know who is in it
To let the audience know when it is on
To tell something about the story of the movie

4. Posters What are the conventions of a movie poster?
Large image, filling most of the space
Actors’ names at the top. Often in capitals
Lots of light on characters
No text over the characters’ faces
Image carefully chosen to give information about movie – here romance – profiles of main characters before a kiss
Title is large and either at the bottom or top
Font is carefully chosen – here to create mystery and romance
Colours – carefully chosen to create mood. Here, soft oranges to link to time of ‘twilight’
Release details
Credit block at the bottom to give industry information
Company logos

5. Homework
Choose three of the posters below and write your own textual analysis of them in annotations around the poster
A* - B
Detailed analysis of three posters
Lots of comments about WHY certain elements are chosen C
Analysis of three posters
Some comments as to why certain images, fonts, layouts used D
Annotations of three posters
Comments tend to DESCRIBE the elements, rather than analyse

6. TASK Your task is to make one of the posters below in pairs.
Choose your poster
Plan your photoshoot - costumes, props, who will be the model(s)
Write necessary details in your planner for NEXT lesson

7. Planning photographs Do your photos need to be landscape or portrait?
How much of each person do you need to see?
Medium Close Up shot
Long shot
Close Up shot
Medium shot

8. Fonts
Create a document called Prelim Poster task fonts and search through dafont for the correct font
Put your possible choices onto your document - remember to clearly write down the full name of the font
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9. Poster Use the Photoshop tutorial on Weebly
Layout the poster in Photoshop for all except the photograph