Teenage movie and Chick Flick Posters

"MEAN GIRLS" and "A CINDERELLA STORY"

These posters that we looked at were very helpful. We analysed the layout of the posters from the following films: mean Girls, Not another teen movie, a Cinderella Story and She's the man. With the mean girls poster we liked the use of colour and the way in which the characters are placed, as you can already notice a divide between the social groups just by looking at the poster. Although it doesnt give too much away. We decided the base of poster ideas mainly on the mean girls poster, as the outfits and positioning on the characters were quite symbolic to the genres signifiers.

The poster on the right was for iconic teenage movie Mean Girls. As you can see from the poster is looks very girly with the use of pink, reds, revealing clothing and high heels. The background is very plain, which makes the purpley/pink writing stand out from the background. This posters is mainly what we decided as a group to base our poster on. We liked everything about the poster. So when we later created our own poster to advertise our media product, we had mean girls poster on our mind. We also looked at many other film posters but they were not as suitable for our film as this one above. For example we considered A Cinderella Story's poster layout, but this was not right becasue it was based on a well known fairytale that has been given a modern twist, whereas our film is more like mean girls. The poster for A Cinderella story is shown below:

As you may notice the colours used on each of the posters are very different. The mean girls poster is more girly and uses all ways to catch your atention, which pretty girls in revealing outfits, to colourful bold titles. Whereas A cinderella story is more basic and has an inncoent approach, as a white background is used, the title is in a blue colour, which is not stereotypically girly. Also the girl character "Hilary Duff" is not viewed in a sexual and seductive way, if anything she looks like a tom boy who wears a dress with trainers, althought the trainers are pink this could sigify the fact that she is still a girl who is soft and innocent. The fact that she is on his back on the poster shows friendship and again perhaps an innocent attitude to their relationship, whereas mean girls is more suggestive and poster creates the idea of more sexualised girls that are aware of the looks and power. The girl in a cinderella story seems alot more unaware of her looks.

Considering all the ideas we discussed we went for a mean girls style as the characters in our film "Miss-Fit" have a simialr attitude to mean girls characters.
Chelsea, the lead character in our film "Miss-Fit" is very similar to Regina George in "Mean Girls". however our geeky character Lily has simialr qualities to Sam Montgomery in "A Cinderella Story".