I have researched professional short film posters to investigate what professional film posters are like to understand what we'll have to do for our film poster and how they show the genre in their posters, as this is an ancillary brief we are going to do.
FILL ME IN
The poster for Fill Me In (Sebastian Thiel, 2013) shows the genre of romance as the couple stand close together and the other girl facing them with jealous like body language as she stands with her arms crossed. The way that the actors are positioned also gives an indication of the kind of plot as he is clearly in the middle of these two girls.
Another feature that indicates to the audience the story is the tag line of "would you give him a second chance?"The font used is bright, bold and large along with the fact that it seems to be filled in with some sort of pencil effect. The emphasis on the me as it is underlined suggests that the girl who is standing alone is the one that he is being unfaithful to.
The outfits of the actors also indicate the target audience and plot. Two of the actors are wearing young adult like, simple clothing; jeans, a simple top and a t-shirt. The girl on the left is wearing a short skirt and high heels which means that she is showing more skin. This shows her as the one who is causing the trouble as she is wearing minimal clothing and touching his hair. This yet again backs up the idea of the story being about an unfaithful relationship.
Since the poster convinces consumers that the story could be about an unfaithful couple it enhances the surprise of the audience when they watch the short film and realise the real story is completely different from what the poster suggests.
Thoughtful analysis of representation and target audience for 'Fill Me In' and 'High Maintenance' but you need to go back and add observations on institutional information ((release date, puffs, credits, classification) as you will need to have noted these in order to produce a convincing version of your own.
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