This movie poster for Saving Private Ryan uses simple fonts and colors to represent the realism and seriousness of war. The green and blue colors at the top represent an army uniform, while browns and oranges at the bottom show dust and terrain. The grey sky and somber facial expressions convey an unhappy, serious mood. Tom Hanks' name is featured prominently to highlight his starring role, and the text is centered with the title in bold to draw attention. The overall minimalist, black-and-white design captures the gritty reality of conflict.

1. Saving Private Ryan
Realism
This poster represents
Colours reality as war happens
The colours at the top in society, the colours
of this poster are a show and reflect war
green/blue such as browns and
representing the greens.
uniform of the army.
The sky looks grey to Fonts
represent that it’s a The fonts are very
bad serious unhappy simple in the
day like the war. At the advertisement without
bottom of the picture swirls or block pieces as
oranges and browns I feel it is meant to be
are used to show that resemble reality and
war as it isn’t something
the protagonist is pretty or creative. The
walking into the sun font looks like Arial.
which suggests peace ‘Saving’ is in bold as
or hope or in complete this is the key point of
contrast it could the film and is meant to
represent dust from stand out from
where there has been everything.
a war.

2. Reaction
My reaction to a film
Layout
Saving Private Ryan like this would probably
be very upsetting as it
The layout of the poster is is reality so what you
structured in a certain way see is horrible but true.
for certain reasons. Your We can also see this
main focus is of the army throughout the picture.
men with Tom Hanks the Text
protagonist himself at the The text is centred in
front so he is the attraction the middle so it’s in
when you first look which line with the pictures
shows the audience a but also so it is in
good actor is in it. Their focus with what the
facial expressions show audience sees first.
seriousness but also ‘Tom Hanks’ is at the
disappointment and top on it’s own line to
unhappiness which reflect show the audience a
what the film is about. famous actor is in the
Underneath that shows a film and then the other
man (guessing the actors are at the
protagonist) walking into bottom which shows
the distance reflecting their importance.
independence and Having ‘Saving Private
loneliness. Using a black Ryan’ in the middle
background against white attracts your attention
text makes it stand out like and having it bold and
the soldiers do but also bigger font shows it’s
black and white is very authority.
simple.