Week 5 Reading Questions

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• The posters shown range from the late 1930's to early 2000 the way I based my answered was not merely on the poster I just happened to know that the first poster the Wizard of Oz was released in 1939 it would have been hard to guess to figure the year by the poster because the photo of the cast are in custom and unless you knew who the actors were to guess by their star power it would be kind of deceiving. The second poster for the movie Buffalo Soldiers I estimate to be early 2000 because of the actor presented on the poster and the camo type fatigues were used later by the army. The third poster of Vertigo I place in the late 1950's I base this opinion on the actors and their style of dress and the fact they list it as an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece. The fourth and final poster is easily a 2000 film mainly because it is in my time frame the computer imaging look of the poster and the web site listing at the bottom.
• To figure the kind of movies represented by the posters starting with number one a family story book movie because it is based on a children's book and the way the actors are dressed in character on the poster. Buffalo Soldiers a comedy because of the subtitle on the poster " Steal all that you can steal" and " a story so outrageous you couldn't make it up". The third poster because it is an Alfred Hitchcock movie has to be a thriller and the front shows a drawing of two people in somewhat of a life saving clutch. The fourth and final poster the Matrix Revolution is a sci fi going by the computer imagery and the style of dress that the characters are wearing plus the title its self.
• For the time period the Wizard of Oz poster would have been very bright in color the use of b&w photos with the color drawings was a precursor of what was going to happen in the movie as going from b&w to color. The Buffalo Soldiers uses the flag as a bright catch your eye to draw you in. Vertigo uses the red to catch your eye then the yellow to push out the title also the type of lettering used also catches your eye. The matrix uses it black to fade to light green and its lighted lettering to push the title at you and give you that futuristic feel.
• Wizard of Oz goes from top to bottom the title is in red catching your eye. Buffalo Soldiers draws you in to the title then to the man on the front who then is pointing up to the title. Vertigo draws you to the couple on the front first because it is placed on a red background and makes the picture pop out at you then to the drawing at the right hand side that points you to the top then your eyes tend to go to the yellow showing the title.