Conventions of a Teen Comedy/Drama and Genre Poster Analysis.

Skins.

This poster shows all the main cast of skins series 5, It doesn't give much away about the storylines, the movie that we want to make is abit like a movie version of the series of Skins, that is why we have included it in the research of the conventions of Teen Comedy/Drama.

                                            Angus, thongs and perfect snogging.

This poster shows the main character in the foreground, and then the other 'main' characters of the movie in the bubble above her head, the poster also has the name, slogan and other information about the film in the poster.

The Inbetweeners movie.

This poster includes all 4 main characters showing clearly their personality's from their facial expressions and from what they are wearing, the background of the poster shows bold and bright colours, that are in bars and clubs, showing clearly that the film revolves around clubbing and alcohol.

Mean Girls.

This poster shows the one main character in the foreground, with the other three 'mean girls' in the background, the slogan is quite big, this lets you know that the film is pretty bitchy, and obviously girly because of the colours used.  

Conventions:

All four of the posters above clearly show the main character/main characters in the foreground of the movie poster. The use of colour in the posters are all bright and bold and the colours in most of them represent the film and what they stand for. In the 'Mean Girls' poster the colours used are different shades of pinks, showing that the film is girly and revolves around girls. In the 'Angus, thongs and perfect snogging' poster the colours used are pretty bold and bright, and the lipstick kiss makes you realise if you didn't already know just by looking at it, that the story is about a typical girl and her life as a teenager. All of the posters tie in together because of the colours used. The main conventions of a Teen Comedy movie poster are, the colours used are mainly bright and bold and the main characters are shown in the foreground and the other characters are in the background or somewhere else in the poster looking onto the main character. The main slogan for the movie is also shown clearly on the poster, this is letting the public know more about the movie and what it is about.