This document analyzes a movie poster for the film "Public Enemies" starring Johnny Depp. It examines various design elements of the poster and how they conform to or challenge conventions of movie posters and magazine covers. These elements include the central image of Depp, placement of the film title, use of font sizes, inclusion of other text details like release date and price, and positioning of logos and production company details. The document provides insights into how the poster effectively promotes the film and draws attention from audiences through its composition and adherence to typical media formats.

1. There's typical criminal background, this
implies that the film is a crime and has
something to do with criminals
Deep’s facial expression s of
him smirking, this makes the
audience want to know why he
is smiling
The title is centered within
the poster and its in bigger
font out all the text . This
makes it the main focus.
Medium close up on his face
helps show his facial expression
Includes a website address to
advertise the film more and give the
audience more o an insight to the
film
The lighting hits main character
making him the main attraction and
also highlight his expression
Dark colours are used as a background
to help represent the genre crime
Short tagline to hint to the
audience that the criminal in
the film is an extremely bad
character and that the plot
will be intense.
Plain clear font which is quite
a big size to stand out from
the background
Character is centralised and made the main focus of
the poster, this is because the actor is very well
known and would attract the audience as they
recognise him.
This is a type of teaser or
character poster as the main
character and the poster
doesn't’t give too much away
making the audience want to
know more.

2. Big plus sign , telling readers that they get
even more on this magazine. Followed by
the headline at the bottom which talks
about reviews and personal life of actors as
some people like celebrity gossip
This tells us the release date of
this particular issue which July
2009 and the price £3.99 so that
readers know who much they
have to pay. Notice how the
price is in a small font and
everything else on the cover is
much bigger, this is to make
readers believe that they are
making the best of their money.
It also has the barcode which is
a typical feature of all font
covers of magazines.
Masthead of the magazines empire, notice how the actor is placed
over the title. This is to show that he and the film are the main
focuses of this issue and the magazine people don’t mind doing this
because their magazines is already well known
Magazine website so that
fan readers get more out of
the magazine
The film title is biggest
font on the whole cover
apart from the
masthead public
enemies this is placed
over the actor so that
people know that’s the
name of the film that
jhonny deep is in .
From the image we can
see the famous actor
Johnny deep . If there
are people who really
like this actor they will
be interested on this
magazine. The fact that
he's holding a gun tells
us that this film is a
gangster crime film.
Headlines telling us that this magazine is also
reviewing famous films such iron man 2 so that if
people like any of these, they will be interested
and it will grab their attention

3. Issues number and
price written above
the masthead, I have
used conventions of
empire magazine as
they often do this so
readers know it’s a
new issues .
I have placed extra cover lines on the side to inform
readers what else is included, I have followed
conventions by using two different colour as empire
does
By placing the strapline at the top
so that it can be easily seen when
displayed in shops and informs
readers what inside
Masthead is at the top so
people cans see it when
displayed in shops, I have used
conventions by covering part of
the masthead with main image
, as it is a well known magazine
I have used conventions of
empire by placing my
barcode at the side so it sis
visible but doesn't’t
interfere with the main
image. Empire often do
this
I have challenged forms
and conventions of
empire magazine by
using a close up of my
character to attract
readers as, the direct eye
contact attracts attention
by forming a connection
with readers
I have challenged conventions
by placing the film at the
bottom because I didn't’t want
to have it across the main
image because this would’t
create a connection with the
reader

4. I have followed conventions by
placing the production and
distribution logos at the bottom
to inform the audience that well
known companies have worked
on the film. I have also added
links to websites which people
can visit as the public enemies
poster has.
I have conformed to
conventions of film
posters by adding my
own tagline and placed it
under the film title,
because when I
researched real media
product most film poster
also did this .
I have used forms and
conventions by placing
the cast and crew at the
bottom in white, so that
the text can be seen
against the black
background, the font is
different to other text on
the poster and easy to
read.
I used form and
conventions of the public
enemies poster by using
similar image of a
character form your trailer
. I have also used lighting
effect on my image same
as the public enemies
poster
The film title is near
the bottom of the
page so like the
public enemies
poster it fills up some
empty black