Today we began researching the typical composition for romantic comedy posters. To demonstrate our knowledge of this genre we will conform to these and aspire to make a similar image. We came across this link which highlighted different techniques used in these posters.

1. With the two lead characters back to back

This image shows the female lead crossing her arms and frowning slightly at the male lead who looks casual with his hands in his pockets. This is quite an easy shot to recreate and is an option for our own poster. We could either have our characters leaning against each other in reality for the shot, or take separate photographs of them leaning against a wall and photoshop them together.

2. Sitting together (usually on a bench)

This is another simple shot which is easy to recreate as it just features both lead characters sitting together. They could be posed sat back-to-back or frowning at each other. Another idea is that our female lead could be upset whilst the male lead hides flowers or chocolates behind his back.

3. Close up shot of two lead characters

This shot features the two main characters with the female lead kissing the male's cheek. This is a possible option for us but it depends on how comfortable our actors are in this pose and we would shoot it as is rather than photoshopping two images together.

4. A collage

This poster uses stills from the film itself to create a collage which advertises the film. I like this concept because it's clever and relatively simple, however i'm not sure we'd have enough shots to create a poster like this.

Alternatively we could use a still from our film of the characters meeting or pose a shot showing that event.