Movie Posters

[Finally, a new post... After ages...]

We just discussed movie posters a while ago - how good they were as pictorial representations and how they themselves tell a story. We were asked to bring movie posters as a homework. Two of my classmates brought the following movie posters...

Miroy said this one was easy - childish even. The story can be gleaned directly from the picture - almost like arithmetic.

This one was a tad bit more sophisticated. Indeed, it was a rich pictorial representation - I was able to glean a lot of things even if I was not familiar with the story of the Notebook.

This one was what I planned on bringing. What do you think?

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Again, according to him - nothing here is for aesthetics - or even accidental, nothing in art is. Art is all about conveying meaning - it is communicative. Art is about power. Art is about money. Not just beauty but meaning and communication.