More Poster Research.

The popular teenage drama Skins has a very clear image it's trying to sell which is common amongst programmes today, sex. It's similar to that of Hollyoaks in the sense that is an attractive cast and emphasises sexual relations. This was a controversial poster and was said to be banned. We won't follow this style as i think it's degrading to the show and narrows your market. Although it does follow the convention of featuring the main character and highlight a central storyline. It's quite enigmatic as it doesn't reveal a storyline as such but strongly conveys a lifestyle and therefore communicating it's narrative image successfully. It's an abstract image which conveys to viewers that the programme itself is not based on representing strong realism. The environment portrayed is of course not realistic and again you see an all white cast.

This is another poster from the popular programme Top Gear. It's just as stylised as before and conveys a strong narrative image. It seems both these posters featuring one or two characters have very simplistic layouts which can be easily interpreted and visually very striking. This character is completely covered in a racing uniform as the viewer you instantly recognise this is a car show of some sort. Nothing more is really revealed to the audience so it causes audiences to wonder what else is featured. This is one way of drawing in an audience and can be successful in generating new viewers rather than maintaining audience viewings. As this programme is one of the most popular programmes on TV today there's no need to publicise it's broadcasting details.

This is the second generic form of TV posters. It's more complex visually as it features all main characters in the layout. This gives you a more detail representation of relationship dynamics between characters and gives you a more accurate representation of the programme itself. I think it would fail to attract a mass audience as i believe too much is being revealed. The poster is much more imaginative as it fights very well with their supernatural story lines. It has no real relevance to the style of which we're looking at although we may consider creating a poster that features all cast members.


This is another supernatural programme that has a more visually complex layout. The problem with featuring specialist is graphics is, 'a', we don't acquire the knowledge or specialist equipment to construct and, 'b', it strongly resembles a film poster. To some extent you can mention the simplistic poster can also resemble a film poster although i would deny this as it's not projected with a strong narrative image and leaves more for your persona response and imagination. Whereas having a poster such as this creates a more accurate image for the viewer leaving less for personal response. This can be negative attribute when the intention is to appeal to a large diverse group of people.


I conclude this research with the fact that we may as a group lean towards a more simplistic poster featuring one or two characters with strong symbolic meaning.