'Looking' is a show that was broadcast first in January 2014 in America on the HBO network. It then came to the UK and Northern Ireland later in the same month, attracting 67,000 viewers. The show is a fictional series about a group of gay men and their lives in terms of careers, friendships and relationships. We see them on nights out and in more casual situations such as having a coffee together and visiting each others houses etc. I have decided to analyse this poster because the show focuses on homosexual cultures and the representation of the characters is important in the still images.
- A mid shot is used and all three characters are visible, even if slightly blurred.
- The characters profile, in the foreground is out of focus and looking away from the camera and he appears to be looking at someone or something else with a slight smile on his face.
- The middle character is assumed to be the main protagonist due to the fact that he is in full focus in the centre of the image and he is the only one looking directly to the front. Although we cannot see his full face, we see that he is facing the front with direct eye contact with the audience. However, this could also be interpreted that he is looking at the foreground character.
- The background character is slightly blurred but not as much as the man in the front. He is looking in the opposite direction also possibly at another person.
- They are all well groomed characters and they look on-trend. A common conception of gay men.
- The typography of the title is blue. The most common connotation of this is masculinity. This creates irony against the sexuality of the characters.
- The typography also closely resembles the look of neon lights, possibly suggesting the mention of clubbing and the nightlife of these men.
-The fact that the show has not started yet, the poster gives us an enigma due to the unusual image of three protagonists that are all male. How are they linked? What are their relationships?
- The time of the show is 10:30pm suggesting that there may be some kind of explicit content or adult themes, unsuitable for pre-watershed broadcasting.
- The light in the background has a vague representation of shedding new light onto a situation. The image of the three men possibly suggests homosexual themes.
- The colours go from darker in the foreground to more feminine on the clothes of the character in the background.This could suggest personality differences or how homosexuality doesn't necessarily fit a colour.
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