Media Exam
1) Explore the ways in which media language combines to make meaning in this film poster (30 marks, 40 minutes) The mise-en-scene of the colours used throughout the poster, black and white, presents a binary opposition in many aspects. The contrast of the sans serif font, seeming similar to font used by far-right ideologies, and the actual title of the movie, ‘Black K Klansman’ alongside the anchorage of the title immediately shows that the movie will be politically charged, and possibly hard to watch by an audience that isn’t the target of the movie. The contrast continues with the composition of the black and white background, with the white section of background forming a triangle in the centre of the frame. The black and white can connote good and evil, or two different opposing sides, presenting us with an idea of what this movie is about. The white triangle in the centre of the frame is a reference to hats worn by the KKK, which makes it even clearer what this film is about. ...