Film Poster Research (By Kasey Swift)

This is england was a low budget film which was only shown in small, selected, cinemas and became popular after being aired on film four. As it is a low budget film I thought that this film poster would be good to look at to help create our own film poster as it is low budget and aimed at a British audience, like our short film. The poster shows two images which is divided by a white banner with the film title and other bits of key information. It contains quotes from reviews and also the awards it has won . The poster has a colour scheme of blue, red and white which are the colours of the union jack, this links it to the name of the film. The poster has pictures of all the main cast, and through there costumes it sends a clear message to a british audience that the film is set in the 1980's when these fashion trends were popular, the main one we see is the skin heads(which is what the film story is about) and these have a reputation of being violent.

Sherlock Holmes had a large budget so more money will be spent on advertising so that the film will draw in a large audience and make a larger profit. Sherlock Holmes has the popular film stars in it which help to attract its audience. Other versions of the poster of the poster will have been made, which are aimed at different audiences attracted to different genres. This poster also has a colour scheme to it. The poster has mainly the same font for the main bits of texts.