This document provides guidance for students on analyzing film posters and creating their own mock film poster. It discusses key elements to identify when analyzing posters such as the title, stars, images, and release date. Students are instructed to analyze an example poster by annotating these elements. They will then analyze the meaning conveyed through the poster's visual style, colors, and tagline. The document outlines requirements for students to plan their own poster, including images, layout, and fonts. It notes they will complete a photo shoot and design mock-ups of their poster.

1. Film Posters
Year 10 Media

2. BIG PICTURE
How to analyse film
poster to understand
structure.
KEYWORDS
Title, blocking,
connotation, colour,
layout, meaning.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
Understand how film
poster are constructed
and why and how they
sell their film to an
audience.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Analyse two posters
which should include
the analysis and
annotations.
Take your seat. Bag
under your desk.
G.C.S.E. Media
• What makes fonts effective on a poster?
• What might colours used in text convey to a
viewer?
• How can you layout the text with the focal
image to make the poster more effective?
You have five minutes before you feedback to
the class.

3. Overview of this half
term.
Unit 2 – Learning Aim A
Finish the elements of pre-production planning we are
possible while in lockdown.
Unit 1 – Learning Aim A and B
Complete all amendments so Unit 1 can shelved for
moderation by February half term.

4. Today’s Lesson
• There are three tasks today.
• Analyse a film poster that is in the same genre as the
film trailer you are making.
• Moodbaord - Generate ideas for a film poster.
• Design a mock-ups for a film poster

5. Analysing Film Poster
Task 1

6. Analysing a Poster
• There are some key elements you need to identify when
analysing a film poster.
• Title
• Star – name of star and position
• Billing Block – names of credit key cast and crew.
• Image Background
• Focal Image
• Release Date
• Distributor
NOTE
I would look at analysing a film
(rather than a different media
product) poster as it will be
easier to create your own in
school.

7. Example
o Title
o Star
o Billing Block
o Image Background
o Focal Image
o Release Date
o Tagline
o Distributor
Where are these elements on
this poster?

9. Film Poster Analysis
• You will need to select a film poster and annotate it using
the criteria below:
o Title
o Star
o Billing Block
o Image Background
o Focal Image
o Tagline
o Release Date
o Distributor
When analysing these headers
consider the use of font styles and
colours being used

10. Task 2
Analysing the meaning
• You are now going to expand the analysis of the poster
looking at:
• Title – what font, position, colours are used?
• Images – Mise-en-scene the setting, costume, lighting used
within the images and what that might be conveying to the
audience?
• Tagline – what does it convey about the story?
• Star Appeal – How are famous actors names used?
• Colour – the primary use of colour within the image and how
images are used within this?
• Iconography – are there images or elements that make it easy
to identify the genre of the film?

11. Example
Lets analyse the poster:
• Title
• Images
• Star Appeal
• Colour
• Iconography

13. Planning a film poster
• You will be creating a film poster. You will need to
consider the following and detail these elements in the
plan:
• What images will you take and of who?
• Where will these images be positioned?
• Will you do anything to these images: colour tinting,
lighting effects or other digital effects.
• What font will you use the title and star text?
• The use of colour in the poster.
Reminder this must be a poster for the film you are creating a trailer
for.

14. Discussion
• Consider the way these posters have used the
discussed critieria.

15. Photo Shoot
• You will need to include images in your poster and be
expected to complete a photo shoot in the studio.
• You will need a background image.
• A focal image
• At least three other images these could be people key
objects etc.

16. Assets

17. Example

18. Brainstorm

19. Mock Ups