Example Posters & Magazine Covers

Posters
This poster is from the American series 'Gossip Girl'. It shows the main characters within the drama. The characters are positioned boy, girl, boy,girl showing the different genders in the drama and shows that they are equal. The colour scheme is shown through the costume of the characters, either black/grey suits for the boys, white dresses for the girls, and other colours such as aqua green, which is linked in with the colour of the title, as the word GIRL is in the same colour as the shirts and dresses as some of the characters. The characters are all positioned sepratly, which is what i aim to do for my poster. Taking pictures of every individual character will able me to position then in a way i think is suitable and looks good on photoshop pro. It seems as the mood for this poster is very relaxed and glamourous, which is different to the mood in which I want to represent in my own trailer,poster, and Tv magazine. Also this poster does not have dates or time that the TV program is shown however on my own poster I wish to provide this information to the target audience, but i will produce a poster that doesnt to see the effect It has on the audience.


Skins
This poster is from the british Tv drama 'SKINS',which features teenagers in todays society. My aim for my own trailer is very similar to skins as it will feature teenagers in a college setting. This poster is very bright, and happy as the colour yellow establishes its mood. The characters are widly spread out in the foreground of the picture and the background. Each character shows stereotypical actions to which is shown in the series for example, 'cook' on the left of the centre girl, is showing facial expressions that show anger, and in the series, this character is very tempermental, and often gets in to fights. This poster like the Gossip Girl one doesnt give the date and time and were to find the show, and also doesnt give the title of the program it is advertising. However because these are the characters of the 3rd series, audiences will automatically know what this is advertising if they have watched the series before. However I will not be doing this as the breif describes as a new soap opera, therefore I would not be suitable for me to do this. The insiration I got from this poster, unlike the Gossip Girl one is the use of stereotypical characters, and the actions that they show that are stereotypical. In the gossip girl poster it is not noticable what the characters are like as they all show the same facial expression and are dressed in formal clothing.


Magazine Covers
This is a front cover of 'WE LOVE TELLY' magzine, a TV listing magazine showing what is going on in the soaps that are on the television weekly. On this particular front cover it shows two characters from the soap Eastenders. The couple within the soap are both muslim and this is portrated on this front cover, as we can see this through costume, as they are wearing stereotypical costume of what muslims, as a religious group would wear. By doing this is shows the characters within Eastenders, and does not show the real person that plays them. This is what I intend to do on my own TV magazine cover, show the characters as they are in the trailer. The colours used on this magazine are very colourful, and are bright. The reasons are for this is to catch the readers eye, leading them to read the main headline, encouraging them to buy the magazine. I also plan to use bright colours in my magazine to signify the young adults in my teenagers that have alot of life in them. Even though the setting in Hull seems dull, it shows a contrast between the surroundings and the people within the setting, which is what I plan to put across. Along the left hand side of there is three plugs from other soaps that link into the contents of the magazine. The mainhead line 'Happy ever after?' is positioned in the centre on top of the picture of the characters, it is also in a bright pink colour along with the colour yellow, both very happy colours suggesting that the mood of the magazine and the content in it are 'happy'

This is another magazine cover, however it is not a TV listing magazine but a magazine for Gays. The attitude magazine features two of the characters from skins, and one the blonde one plays a gay in skins. Again reference of the characters are followed throughout to magazine covers, as if the characters are real. The boy on right plays a hetrosexual boy in skins however at the time this magazine was published, in skins he had a fling with the homosexual boy Maxi (on the left). The colours used on this front cover, are mostly pastel colours but bright ones such as the yellow, this is also seen in the WE LOVE TELLY magazine. The main headline 'YOUNG ISSUE THE BOYS FROM SKINS GO GAY' is in three different pastel colours, adding varitety making the magazine much more presentable. It also tell the audience what is in the contents of the magazine with the tag line 'PLUS HOMO EMO, YOUNG GAY HEROS & TEEN DIARIES FROM WILL YOUNG, MATT LOCAS, JOHN BARROWMAN, ANTHONY CRANK, DAN GILLESPIE.' all of this is in the colour yellow again creating a bright, happy mood to the magazine and the issues it follows.