Compare two film posters between different genre

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Tom Kwei

Section two: Compare film posters from different genres

  1. King Kong

Genre(s) : Action/ Fantasy

  1. War Of The Worlds

Genre(s) : Sci-Fi / Action

Both the film posters are effective in promoting the film and conveying meaning to the audience. They both use many effective visual devices to do this.

The gesture codes are effective visual devices that are used to show facial expressions and body language.

Film poster one presents us with a very strong opening image. That of a towering ferocious ape, King Kong.

Kong is presented in a crouching pose, shielding the female protagonist from the audience. His protective state suggests he is acting contrary to his animal roots and protecting rather then killing the human female.

Also on Kong’s forehead we can see a deep scar, showing that even someone as appretnly vicious as Kong can receive harm. This allows the audience to perceive Kong with perhaps not sympathy but definelty a better understanding of his appeal to the audience.

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The female represents a binary opposite to the posters main focus. Wheares Kong is portrayed as a huge angry ape, our woman protagonist is a small dainty and clearly in some kind of distress. This plays perfect, as her stereotypical feminity allows the audience to understand her better, and the same applies for Kongs body language, as the stereotypical big caring masculine here, or in this case anti-hero. Our female protagonist does not seem scare, rather in awe of this huge beast. Her body language prompts lack of fear and amazement at her position.

War Of The Worlds seems ...

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