Analysis of "Gone With the Wind" poster.

"Gone with the Wind"  is a 1939 American epic-historical romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. It was directed by Victor Fleming and stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. "Gone With the Wind” presents a sentimental view of the Civil War, in which the “Old South” takes the place of Camelot and the war was fought not so much to defeat the Confederacy and free the slaves as to give Miss Scarlett O'Hara her comeuppance. But we've known that for years; the tainted nostalgia comes with the territory. Yet as “Gone with the Wind” approaches its 60th anniversary, it is still a towering landmark of film, quite simply because it tells a good story, and tells it wonderfully well.

As our film takes place during several time periods we thought that it could be a good idea to make different posters reflecting the different time periods within our films in a similar way to how the poster for "Gone with the wind" reflects the period in which it was set.

Analysis of "The Notebook" poster.

"The Notebook" is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. 'The Notebook" cuts between the same couple at two seasons in their lives. We see them in the urgency of young romance, and then we see them as old people, she disappearing into the shadows of Alzheimer's, he steadfast in his love. It is his custom every day to read to her from a notebook that tells the story of how they met and fell in love and faced obstacles to their happiness. Sometimes, he says, if only for a few minutes, the clouds part and she is able to remember who he is and who the story is about.

I have chosen to look at the poster for "The Notebook" as I believe that our film follows quite a similar narrative as both our film and "The Notebook" as they follow the romantic relationship of an elderly couple whilst showing flashbacks of key moments of their lives in the past. Because of this we thought it would be a good idea to review this poster to see if we could draw any more similarities which could therefore provide inspiration for our poster.

Analysis of "Amour" poster.

"Amour" is a 2012 french-language romantic drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintigant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on the right side of her body. The film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, and was nominated in four other categories: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Emmanuelle Riva), Best Original Screenplay (Michael Haneke) and Best Director (Michael Haneke). At the age of 85, Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

The reason why I have chose this poster for analysis is because the film is centered around the love story of an elderly couple which is similar in a way to our film as our film features an elderly widow reminiscing over the times she spent with her husband. We thought that the poster for "Amour" perfectly summed up what the film was about as it showed the husband protagonist affectionately holding his elderly wife's face. We have had an idea that we could do two separate posters, both being similar in style to the poster for amour but with one of them being with our protagonist as an elderly woman and one of them with her when she was much younger.

Analysis of "Wish You Were Here" poster.

"Wish You Were Here" is a 1987 British comedy-drama film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. It was written and directed by David Leland. The movie was based loosely on the memoirs of the British madam Cynthia Payne as an adolescent growing up on the Sussex coast. It was filmed in the West Sussex towns of Worthing and Bognor Regis. The reason why I am analysing this film's poster is because I think that the bottom section of the poster for "Wish You Were Here"looks very similar to some of the shots from our films which are pictured below. The poster of "Wish You Were Here" features a faded picture of the protagonist in the background and an eclipsed shot of the British seaside.

We think that the shots which are shown below are very similar to the bottom corner of the poster for "Wish You Were Here" because they both feature a female protagonist standing next to the metal railing near the sea with a retro looking bike, because of this we are considering using one of the pictures below as the main aspect of the poster for our film.

Analysis of Deadpool Posters

The poster for "Deadpool" pictured above is very misleading. The film "Deadpool" is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, however in the poster above it seems as if "Deadpool" is a romantic films as it shows a couple embracing one another with the tagline "True love never dies." which all makes it seem very romantic. I think that the makers of this film chose to produce this poster in this way for two main reasons. Firstly, for comedic effect as I think that people who are already fans of "Deadpool" will find it quite funny to see a poster which makes "Deadpool look like a romantic film. Secondly, the other reason why I think that the makers of the film produced this poster was to mislead audiences into thinking that it was a romantic film as it comes out on Valentines Day which is a very popular day for people to watch films. Most of the posters for the film look much more like the ones pictured below which are very different to the one above.