As my short film is not a typical short film and is a spoof/cooking show i think making the poster will have very different codes and conventions than the poster of mainstream and independant posters, What seems to be apparent is that the parodied films and their posters have an element of the orginal present in both the film and the advertsing to go with it.
Looking at other spoof/parody film posters i have seen that there is a big difference in the look of the posters.
I have had a look at a few spoof poster such as…
The naked gun
Hot Shots
Airplane
The 41 year old Virgin – Out of all the poster I have to say this is my favourite one, I think it’s because it’s relevant to my generation. I Like the way they have four titles which are included to make up the title. The pictures are also relevant as the actors used are lookalikes which bring the titles and pictures together. The background I think draws the viewer in as it’s an orange which catches the eye. I think the poster is well made and does it’s job in advertising the film.
For my poster I think I will use just a single photo of my actress and a piece of food such as a cake. I think the thing that will parody Nigella is the different actress who is playing her is a red head, and I will create a bad looking cake (messy) and then have my actress pose as if putting a cherry on the cake. Or the opposite and have a delicious looking cake with her making it look horrible which I think is a good idea as it’s also a way at having a go at the TV chefs not only who make bad food look good simply or the opposite and how some make good food look horrible such as Jamie Oliver.
Mairead, you are producing a short film yet you have analysed posters from feature films. You need to look at the marketing and style of posters produced for short films.
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