Individual Poster Analysis

I decided to analyse this poster because of the same reason as the magazine cover I choose. It has a two shot on it and the delicate style is appealing to our story as well. It also has good and interesting Photoshop editing on it, which is something we are aiming for too.
Although the film itself is not classified as an art house film the poster has several quirky elements. The film is actually a romantic love story, but it contains foreign elements as he main character goes to Japan several times. So therefore some parts are subtitled and maybe that’s a reason why not many people know about this film, although it has Keira Knightley in it. If Hollywood would be making art house films they would be like this one. There are quite a few secrets that unfold at the end of the movie just like in our story.
The poster as it is, is simple, it is not overcomplicated or too much. This is because the light cream, peach colour of the background. There is a Japanese girl’s delicate face on it edited as it seems like she is looking down on the main couple. It is interesting that the couple is not in the centre of the poster, but because they have higher saturated colours they become the main focus. What stands out the most is the title of the film: Silk, which is because, the red background of it, what I find interesting is that it is written in a different way. It is vertical instead of horizontal, which might suggest the foreign touch of the film as in Japan they write vertically. There are also little writings on the poster quoting a line from the film and telling about the director and his previous film.
It is very good about this poster that it has three different elements to it, all arranged on different part of the poster. The girl’s face, the couple and the title and they all create a big part of the poster, but they still managed to meagre them in together and create a balance within the poster. The elements kind of divide the poster to an upper and lower level, the bottom with the couple and the title and the Japanese girl on the top as a form of illusion or dream.
I think this poster is brilliant and it would be great to achieve something similarly good and quirky, although it has not got elements such as contrast, which we found a very big part of the graphics of art house style.