More Poster Research

I have chosen to analyse the film poster of lock stock and two smoking barrels because i feel that it is a film with many of the same conventions as ours e.g. the guns and menacing looking characters. also ive noticed that much like our own poster, this poster uses a mainly monochrome theme with only a little colour in places This gives a sense a realism and danger especially when used on the vinnie jones charecter carrying two shotguns, to make him look like a cold blooded killer which is the feel that our group tried to emulate.
In terms of actual poster conventions it has all the features of a typical movie poster e.g. a billing block in the bottom right and quotes from various publishers. However i did notice something very clever the quotation marks around the quotes are one of the only items that are in colour and when looking at monochrome your eyes are naturally drawn to colour, this guarentees that viewers will read the quotes and futher increase the chance that viewers will come to watch. Finnaly i noticed that vinnie jones is at a slightly canted angle while this may be stylistic positioning it later occured to me it was most likely to make room for text.