The Hangover Poster

Like the other two posters, the film's title is the largest and boldest text on the page which makes it memorable. The tag line, "Some guys just can't handle Vegas", like on Happy Gilmore's poster, gives a clue to the plot of the film. It shows that it is set in Vegas and that the fact that they "can't handle" it is where the comedy is going to occur. Again, like the Happy Gilmore tag line, this enables the audience to know if they are going to enjoy the sort of humour in the film.

Similarly to the other posters, the image is of the main characters in the film and some people may recognise the actors from previous films that they enjoyed.

The fact that at the bottom of the poster, instead of saying something along the lines of 'Released...' it instead says "Feel it" which gives a hint towards the tone of the film.

Just like the other two posters, the production team is featured faintly at the bottom of the page.

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Liar Liar Poster

This poster also highlights Jim Carrey starring in the film for the same reasons that the Happy Gilmore poster does.

The white background and the bright light in the poster hints towards there being something miraculous about the film and that it will feature some sort of unrealistic happening.

The poster also features an image of Jim Carrey who takes up most of the page.

The film's title is in bold clear font which makes it memorable so people are going to remember the title and think that they want to see it.

Like the Happy Gilmore poster, the names of the companies and people involved in producing the film are in faint and smaller text at the bottom of the screen.

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Happy Gilmore Poster

This poster highlights the fact that Adam Sandler stars in it and this is important because he is a well-known comedy actor who may have fans from previous films and so his name and an image of him will entice an audience for Happy Gilmore.

It also shows that the film is about golf as he is holding a golf club and the camera perspective is looking up through a course hole with a golf ball resting just in front of it. The tag line "he doesn't play golf...He destroys it" shows that he is not very good and so the potential audience can predict that this is where the comedy will be coming from and so they can judge whether they will enjoy the film.

The film's title is the biggest font size on the poster and underneath this, in small and faint text, there is a list of all the people and companies involved in producing the film.

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Genre Conventions

What are genre conventions?

A genre convention is a typically expected component of the plot, character, setting, theme or effect in a film. For example, it is conventional for superheroes to wear costumes.

Conventions are usually unrealistic however is accepted by the audience as a logical factor to the film. Another example of a genre convention is that comedy in a film is exaggerated.

Genre conventions are repetitive and easily recognised by an audience. A typical convention of a horror could be that a girl is alone in a house and the phone rings. The audience can then expect that she will be victimised.

Genre conventions are used by a producer to form a structure and attract an audience. Potential audience can use genre conventions to see if they will enjoy the film based on past conventions they have experienced in other films of the same genre.

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This GQ cover is awarding The Hangover cast title of "Funnymen of the Year". As it's an awards special, the actors are smartly dressed in tuxedos however there's still a throwback to the film with the pink underwear in Zach Galifianakis' mouth. It retains a comedy element with Ed Hemls' pose. The title has clearly been won thanks to he Hangover but the cover is very detached from the image of the film, this could be due to the type of magazine it is though as GQ is quite a respected, adult magazine.

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The Hangover Movie Trailer

Liar Liar TRAILER