2 film posters, annotated

1. ANALYSINGFILMPOSTERS
By Molly Smith

2. Bad TeacherThe colours of this
poster are fairly plain,
however the
brightness of the
apple with the post-it
note on makes the
poster stand out more.
The way the teacher is
positioned and the way
the whole poster seems
tilted or diagonal makes
the film look like a
comedy as the diagonal
positioning shows
clumsiness.Additionally, the tag-line on
the poster, “She doesn’t give
an “F”” portrays comedy
because this sentence is a
pun (it has more than one
meaning). One meaning is
that the teacher doesn’t give
any F grades to her students
and the other meaning is
portrayed in a way that
means she doesn’t care
about the students.
The way the teacher is
positioned in the poster
gives the audience the
idea that she is the ‘bad
teacher’ as her body
language shows she isn't
respecting the furniture
and she looks hung-over
as she looks to be asleep
at the desk and is wearing
sunglasses.
Overall, I think this is a good film poster as it looks quite funny and eye-catching but the main
problem is that the release date isn't specific for when the film is coming out in cinemas. One
controversial aspect of the film poster is that it doesn’t give away many details about the film; this
could be a good thing as it doesn’t reveal the story making the actual film more intriguing and
surprising, but for some people this could be a bad thing as you don’t know what is going to happen
in the film, i.e. is there any romance? What is the problem/dilemma in the film? Is it the teacher who
faces the dilemma or does she have students that have a dilemma?

3. Shaunof the DeadBy looking at this
film poster, you can
see that the colours
of the background
are quite bright and
presumably relate to
blood and danger.
the colours of the
picture with the
zombies look quite
dull but the man and
the flowers stand
out more making the
audience
understand he must
be ‘Shaun’.
The flowers and the
line underneath the
title of the film imply
that the film will be a
romantic comedy.
The fact that there
are lots of zombies
altogether in this
poster create a
horror effect, but the
facial expressions
the zombies are
showing creates a
comedic effect, for
example, one
zombie has his face
smothered across
the window.
The tagline, ‘Ever felt like you were
surrounded by zombies’ is provoking
everyday society because, I don’t know
about you but if you ever go to Westfield,
people there literally look like zombies;
the way they walk around like their brain
is not working, the way they stop in the
middle of the walkway holding up people
who want to actually shop.
I think this is an ideal film poster because the genre of
this film is a romantic, comedy, horror and I think they
have portrayed this well because there are scary
zombies to show horror, there is a man pulling a funny
face and zombies fulling funny faces to show comedy
and the man is holding a bunch of flowers which show
elements of romance, even though we don’t see
anyone else around the man.