I have analysed a film poster from the horror genre which is the genre we will be doing for our trailer, poster and magazine cover.

1. Film Poster from my chosen
genre Analysed
Chynia Teixeira

2. The title, “Dead Silence” reveals to the audience
that a death may occur in the film and the word
silence links with the main image of the finger in
that position that is associated with being quiet.
The affect on the title creates a ghostly and
eerie effect, also makes the title appear
disorientated.
The main image straight away creates fear
within an audience because the use of the doll
would relate to childhood as would the position
of the finger that indicated silence, however the
skin would change this relation to childhood and
innocence and creates a sinister feel to it, also
the eyes on the doll look as though the doll is
looking straight at you. The doll is wearing a ref
bow and has red lips, this connotates danger
and blood which is a common theme within
horror films.
Referring to another film that has the
same director and film writers, is a
common convention within horror film
posters as it creates expectation and
suspense within the audience.
The tagline “You scream. You die”, reveals
that death may occur within the film and it
is talking to the audience which would
create fear within them. The use of red
writing relates to the connotation the red
is associated with danger and blood which
also reveals something bad is going to
happen
The background for this poster is black,
this means that the audience is drawn
straight to the puppet and the finger.
Which allows them that the main focus is
going to be the doll and that there may be
some kind of demon involved within due
to the skin and cuts of the hand.
The simplicity is of the poster is what creates the
most fear as it does not reveal too much about
the film and also the use of low key lighting also
creates the most fear because it reveals to the
audience that this is the character is evil.

3. What have I learnt?
From analysing this horror film poster I have developed new ideas for
the ways in which my group could create a horror film posters. The
main ways would be a black background the use of low-key lighting and
the use of the colour red to connotate danger and create fear within
our audience. Another way we could create a successful film poster is
by keeping it simple and just including the doll this way we don’t reveal
too much about the film.