The 'Hollyoaks' logo is clear in the bottom right-hand corner of this poster. Perhaps why the 'Hollyoaks' stars are on so many posters in this way is because of the theme within the soap which is the two genders: male and famale, and how these interact. In this sense, the posters work in advertising their soap opera.
This 'Friends' poster communicates the close relationship of the characters to the viewer. We are able to see that they are together, on a biulding site, all happy together. They are also all wearing funky clothes. For example, Rachael is wearing boyish 'builder' clothes, but at the same time, she looks attractive and fashionable. The poster is kept simple black and white, with only the name of the programme at the top of the poster. As 'Friends' is such a well-known programme and is loved for the loving relationships between all the main characters, this poster needs nothing else and works, conveying its point straight to its audience.
This 'Skins' poster has a lot going on at once. It has a lot of skin showing, and perhaps this is the selling point of the poster. The female actress in the middle of the poster is only in her underwear and is posing in a way that makes her seem tired, alluring or bored. Her make-up is smudged which makes her look like she has either splet in it or she has been crying. It is probablly not the later, because she does not look upset, but like she truly has just woken up, looking rough, and she is sitting on a bed. It looks as though many characters have slept in the same room over night, and they are still kissing each other when there is daylight coming through the window whose shadow is on the wall. The boy lying in bed is staring at the girl sitting on the bed which suggests he loves her or is having sexual fantasies about her. The girl sitting on the bed also seems completly careless, not at all bothered by what is going on around her, whilst everyone on the floor around her is involved in kissing eachother half naked. The overall message of the poster is the care-free attitude of the teenager characters portrayed within 'Skins'.
This poster is only a photograph- but it works because it has every main character of series three dressed in their own individual way, and the way the characters are positioned tells us alot about them. Effy is the closest to us- in the middle- perhaps conveying that she is a very big character within the drama, or that she has a loud personality. She is not looking at any other character, but at us, which in itself tells us about her, saying that she is mysterious and looks at people to maybe see their reaction- and if it is negative (which is unlikely- then she does not care). The fact that Freddie and Cook are on either side of her suggests that they are both infactuated by her and are both wanting her for themselves, yet she is care-free and does not really care much about 'love' at the moment. Freddie's sister is perched on a mini stage and seems completly self-centered, emersed in her imaginary singing, whilst the twins next to her look odd and blank, standing up straight with no individual poses, showing that they are perhaps awkward, or awkward together. JJ looks very nervous- this shows his personality- because although he is extremly bright, he has some sort of problem which makes him different to everyone else, and even if someone was not a fan who knew the characters, they would be able to tell this, just by looking at this photo.
This is a 'Hollyoaks' poster and is obviously created, solely to attract the opposite sex within its audience.
'Hollyoaks' have many revealing posters which are looked at and admired, showing the women or men in swimming costumes. I think this is because, as well as portraying a stylised way of life within 'Hollyoaks', they are also portraying that image in real life- as actors and actresses, showing that this is one main thing that is recognisable about 'Hollyoaks'. If I am to make a poster, I want to portray our characters across within it, therefore, I would not use sexually attractive images.
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