Film Poster Textual Analysis

'Under Fire, Journalists in Combat' is a documentary film which was released in 2011 and production company is JUF pictures.

Textual Analysis

IMAGE- there is not one main image as a background. There are 9 small screenshots from the film and cast interviews, this gives an insight into the film and the characters.

COLOUR- The background of the film poster is plain black. The colour scheme is grey, black and red which goes well with the genre of the film which is war/action.

FONT- I can't tell what the title of the film is, therefore I make my title much more obvious. I think the film is called 'Under Fire, Journalists in Combat' which is in grey courier font but because 'Under Fire' is in bolder font (capitals) and a bright red it distracts the reader to think that is the title. Personally I think it would look better if it was all in the same colour and font. I would swap the position, font and colour of these two slogan to make sense.

LAYOUT- there are 3 grey outlined comic strips layered in the middle of the film poster which draws attention of the reader. At the bottom of the poster there are 4 different company logos which shows they have worked on the film.

The reason I used this as film poster inspiration was because of the three layered comic strips with screen shots of the film. As this is an effective way to show the film, the characters and the different scenes. I also like the use of the 'courier' font as it unusual font to use. I like how they haven't just used one main background image because that can not always work to attract the audience but as the images are in the centre of the page it works.