Friday 7 November 2014

Research and planning: film poster analysis 2


This is another film poster, which is the same genre as mine, horror. There are several things that tell me this is a horror poster. First of all, the colours used are stereotypical of a the horror genre, the red, white and black automatically shout out horror. Also the brightness / contrast of the picture have been dropped to make it darker, suggesting its a dark film. You wouldn't see this in a comedy film poster. The poster tells us it was made by the creators of Paranormal Activity, which is also horror. So the audience could expect something quite similar. 
The medium close up used is enough to show us the child's emotion, his facial expression is quite serious, suggesting he is the main character. But we can also see a family house in the background which tells us that it is likely there is a family involved. Again similar to Paranormal Activity. 
At the bottom of the poster we can see the credits including the producers / actors in the film done in the traditional steel tongs font which you almost always see on a film poster.

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