Couple in a hole - poster research

Couple in a hole

Couple in a hole is a short film about a middle aged couple from Scotland who live in a man made cave in France. After their son dies, the mother becomes depressed. After a while, her condition deteriorates and the farther makes his last stand and tries to repair their life.

 MRANG Concepts

- Representation

- Genre

- Narrative 

Representation

This short film poster appears to be made from snapshots from the film. This is to give insight into what is happening and who the characters are. From this, we see that the characters appear to be poor or possibly unemployed. This is because they have little to no clothing when we see it and the pail white skin suggesting they are not healthy. From the tree, Combined with the tree, we can infer that they possibly life in forest, or they are all one large family, the tree symbolising the family tree.

Genre

The Genre of this short film is portrayed well through the poster. First, from how the characters are shown arguing and mid reaction, it gives the impression that it is social realism as their is conflict between the characters. It could be argued as a drama for the same reasons. However, it may be over exaggerated for entertainment purposes. This is also because with the dead tree and pale white skins of the characters, it could symbolise death therefore linking in to the drama genre.

Narrative

At the top of the tree in the poster, we can see the same women multiple times. This could be showing how she changes through the story. We can assume this is the protagonist as she appears multiple times bringing the attention of the audience to her wherever they look. From how the tree appears to be holding up all the characters with a larger women in the middle, it could connote that they are her memories.

Structure 

This poster is in landscape. This is so that we can get a full view of the image of the tree with the characters in it. It also leaves space for the producers to put extra information in such as reviews, billing blocks, awards and much more which is a common convention for posters.