Differences

 

Similarities

Differences

In the background there is the sky and it is blue in both covers, and if you look closely you can see stars in both of them. Next in the foreground you can see the BFG holding the little girl in his hand and he is also writing the same clothes. Finally the font is bold in both and really stands out.

The background is a light blue in the 2nd poster, and it's the sky in the first one. In the 2nd poster it has a cartoonish and animated look; In the 1st poster it looks real and peaceful. And the BFG is on the right in the 1st one and it's on the left side on the 2nd one Next there are cliffs in the mid ground on the 1st one and he also has the flute like thing by his foot. Finally the format is a different color and a lot bigger on the 2nd one.

 Choose either task A or task B to complete using a book you have read or a movie you have seen.  NOTE:  The book must have TWO DIFFERENT COVERS

 

Task A-

 

	Book Cover A
Background: A ship flying up and some scraps of ship floating over.	Copy and paste your cover A  here:	Dominant Image: A girl with black/brown hair.
Target Audience:  Kids that are 12 and over.	Dominant Colours Used: Burple white and black.	Font: neat bold and yellow

 

 

 

 

 

  

	Book Cover B
Background: a ship flying up and parts of ships floating around.	Copy and paste your cover B here:	Dominant Image:a girl watching a ship fly up.
Target Audience: 12 and over.	Dominant Colours Used: Black and white.	Font: bold in yellow.

 

 

 

 

 

Compare- what is the same? Firstly… there is a ship flying     Secondly… there is a girl     Next… there is parts of ships     Lastly...you can see space

Contrast- what is different? Firstly…there is a satellite looking thing in number a     Secondly…one is purple     Next…the girl is looking towards you     Lastly...she is wearing black

OR Task B- Complete using a movie you have seen.  NOTE:  The movie must have TWO DIFFERENT POSTERS (Try www.impawards.com for posters)

 

	Movie Poster A
Background: big island and the sky	Copy and paste your poster A here:	Writing (font & colour):  It's white and bold.
Midground:  The bfgs flute thing		That’s Interesting:  The flute has purple stuff in it
Foreground: The bfg holding the girl		Overall Mood: The overall mood of this movie poster is really happy and joyful

	Movie Poster B
Background: The sky with stars.	Copy and paste your poster B here:	Writing (font & colour):  Its orange and bold
Midground:  nothing		That’s Interesting: The other movie has realistic characters
Foreground:  The bfg is holding the girl		Overall Mood: The overall mood of this movie poster is really happy and joyful

 

 

 

Compare- what is the same? Firstly…the girl in the hands if the bfg     Secondly…the bfg     Next…bfg has same clothes     Lastly...bfg has white hair

Contrast- what is different? Firstly…one is cartoon     Secondly…one has stars     Next…one has a flute in the background     Lastly...one has a island

 

 

 

1.   This is my favourite book cover because there is a girl staring at a spaceship

 

Follow-up task - blogging our work

In English, we have been working on summarising things we see and read. 

Moving to the next level of difficulty, we started looking for similarities or comparisons between texts and book covers, or between movie posters.  

Another level of difficulty, we started looking for differences, or contrasts, between texts and book covers, or between movie posters.

Here’s the example we did on “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” covers

Book cover 1 or movie poster 1 pasted

Book cover 2 or movie poster 2 pasted

Similarities or comparison between Book cover 1 & Book cover 2 Compare- what is the same? Firstly, in comparison there are stars in both book covers, in the sky behind Harry and Hogwarts castle and in the steam of the steam train at the train station.    Secondly, there’s a comparison because of the lightning bolt, the symbol of the lightning bolt appears in both covers, in the letter “O” of Potter and on Harry’s forehead in book cover two.     Next comparison is that there is a mixture of serif font and normal font, serif font is used for Harry Potter’s name in both book covers.     Lastly, yellow colour is used in both covers because the colour yellow is a bright, dominant colour on both book covers.  The covers both use yellow to stand out with the background of book cover A standing out against the dark purple and yellow stands out against red in book cover 2.  Yellow is also the colour of lightning, which is a symbol for Harry’s forehead scar.

Contrasts or differences between Book cover 1 & Book cover 2 Contrast- what is different? Firstly the dominant colours are different and contrasting, with the dark, spooky colours of book cover one, and the bright happy colours of book cover two.   Secondly, the name Harry Potter is random and and in a wavy shape, on book cover one and sort of chaotic, but in contrast, the book cover two, the title is full block serif capitals, very orderly and structured.   Next contrast is the mood of both covers, because book cover one is spooky and scary and book cover two is happy and bright.     Lastly there are five main characters on the cover of book one cover, but in contrast only Harry Potter on the train station 9 ¾ in book cover two