Romeo And Juliet Poster Analysis

We were assigned to choose a Shakespeare play and make our own film-poster based on the play we choose. I choose the play Romeo and Juliet because that is the Shakespeare play I am most familliar with. In photograpfy class we were sopposed to take a photo that we could use in our poster and in english class we were soppsed to do reserah about our choosen play and summerzie the plot. In this paper I will write about the play, the charecters and my thought processes when making my poster.So, to start with I am going to summerize the plot of Romeo and Juliet.

Two families, the Montague and the Capulets, lives in a town called Verona and these two families don’t get along. The montagues have a son called Romeo and the Capulets have a daughter

My main focus was to portrait Romeo and Juliet love for each other and not so much a speific scene. I have tried to mix both old and modern components in my poster for example an old school but a more modern design. When it come to the photo, I wanted it to be very simple and clean. I have placed my models in the middle of the picture to make them the main thing you foucus on when you look at the photo. Why I made the picture black and white is beacuse I wantes to include clours in the design, but I did not want the poster to be super colorfull. By making the photo black and with, I was able to have more control over the colorpallet I wanted to use. The title on the poster is written in a handwritten font beacuse I thought it suited the time period when the play was orignally made - for example I can imaged that they used to write each other many letters by hand. However, as I mentioned before, I wanted to mix both old and modern components on my poster, so the rest of the words are written in a more modern font. To go with the more modern theme, I choose to but these clolor “blocks” on the poster because it is something I have seen a lot in modern designs and magazine