Signs and Signifiers

Friends, with a little bit more...

When making this film poster we decided to focus and emphasise age (the youth of the main characters) and also sexuality. We were aiming to represent the younger generations; the woman from the middle class and the man from a working class background. The woman's boots show her middle class status, where as the man's trainers portray the working class. This gave us the opportunity to explore different classes from the same age range.

The position and proximity of the hands and legs show that they're not just friends, as the title suggests but they are close. He is typically sitting how a male would sit, for comfort; where as she is sitting with her legs crossed, a more feminine and formal position. Her hand is placed on his knee, suggesting that women are the more forceful ones and breaking stereotypes that men have all the control in a relationship.

The red blanket and his red shoes connote love and passion, but also danger, which hints at what would be to come in the film. This then links in with the red writing and the theme of love, it gives the poster continuity.
The watch on her wrist suggests that perhaps youth don't always have as much time as they think, just because they have lived less years it isn't guaranteed that they have loads more. Also, linking in with the use of the use of the colour red throughout our poster, because they could be in danger if they don't have as many years left as they presume.

We were influenced by both the TV show Friends and the film Friends with benefits, which helped us create our piece.