1) The poster depicts two main characters hugging while one looks at their phone, hinting at mistrust between them.
2) One character has an upsetting, distraught facial expression while looking away from the hug, showing she feels isolated and betrayed.
3) The brick wall background sets the scene in a rural area, consistent with other social realism films.
1. Conventions of a social realism poster:
Low key lighting
Domineering lead character
Gang culture
Group of friends
Rural area settings
Title matching theme of gritty and rough
Tagline to represent rivalry between characters
Modern clothing worn
Use of props that reveals the ages of the characters, eg: phones
Hints and clues of issues that may be explored, eg: teenage pregnancy
Examples of social realism posters:
3. Final Poster:
On my poster, the font used is to represent rough and a broken effect in
relation to the short film being called ‘Broken Trust’. This is used so the theme
of appealing to a younger audience would be recognised.
By having the two main characters on my poster hugging each other whilst
one is looking at their phone shows that there must be a slight indication of
mistrust between the two characters. This is important because it uses the
conventions of rivalry between two people as shown on the poster. Also, by
having Jodie (one of the characters) face looking away from the image of the
hugging with a very upsetting and distraught facial expression demonstrates
that the Jodie is feeling isolated and betrayed by her friend.
I decided to use the background as a brick wall because from researching
other social realism films, I realised that it was commonly used especially in
outside locations in rural areas. I believe this helped to set the setting of the
characters background in more detail. The brick wall does not suggest that
the film will be filmed in a nice glamorous area. By other social realism film
poster such as, Adulthood using brick walls on their posters then audiences
can relate to this film as another one of the social realism films.
The credit block on poster is situated on the bottom of my poster in red font.
This is because this colour was used as a theme throughout my poster
because I wanted to demonstrate a dull and serious element to my poster.
The credit blocks of the casts’ names were in colour order so that it could
create more enigmas on why two of the characters are in the same colour.
The audience may begin to wonder if there is a sort of relationship between
the two characters. However, I did not use a tagline on my poster because I
did not want to make my poster overcrowded with too much writing. This
worked perfectly as I could make my poster into a teaser poster.
The diverse of colours on images are often used on social realism films;
however this is illustrated by the effectiveness of lighting. This is because
4. social realism films will use low key lighting on inferior characters. On my
poster I did not use this because I thought adding a different effect such as
black and white would be more effective. This is because Jodie will be seen
as vulnerable and defenceless against her friend. Using the picture of me and
Jodie hugging in high definition colour with exposed contrast will draw the
audiences’ attention quickly. This is because they would be drawn into the
competition and jealousy between both characters.
