This document provides annotations for photographs intended for theatrical movie posters. It describes photos of a model holding a baseball bat walking down a corridor, meant to create intrigue about the character and hint at danger. Another close-up photo shows the model looking frightened, their face visible, after seeing something scary. The costumes, poses, and lighting are intended to evoke horror genre conventions and set the film in the 1980s while hinting at the plot without revealing too much.

1. PHOTO ANNOTATIONS
Jasmine Shanker

2. THEATRICAL POSTER (PORTRAIT)
Model is wearing a denim-on-denim costume
consisting of denim jacket and baggy denim
jeans. This has been done to hint at the time
this film will be set in which is the 1980s
The model is holding a baseball bat as a prop. This
prop is one of the classic self defense weapons in
a horror movie showing that this person could be
in in danger and will have to protect themself,
hinting that the character could be the
protagonist of the film. By having this it creates a
sense of suspense and mystery to who the
character is, where they are going and what are
they up against. This follows the conventions of
horror films where the audience is unable to see a
character's face posters like the Poltergeist poster
where we can not see the little girls face. Also,
the use of the bat fits the genre conventions as
these are usually used as a form of self defense in
films, like Jordan Peele's film Us the father uses it
to try and scare some people off the front lawn
using a baseball bat.
In this I have made the model the focus of this picture as this is for
the theatrical poster so showing a character will interest the
audience but what will interest them more is that they can't see
their face and they will want to know who they are and what they
look like adding a sense of mystery in the picture. This is like what
the Poltergeist poster where the girl's face cannot be seen and like
the Doctor Sleep poster where the protagonist is walking down the
corridor.
The setting for this is a long shot
photo someone walking down a long
corridor holding a baseball bat.
The use of the long shot exaggerates how long the
corridor is creating a sense of unease because in horror
movies long corridors are a scary place. Furthermore, it
allows the audience to see the whole character, what
they are wearing and the bat that they are holding. For
the poster I want the corridor to look quite dark and that
the audience can only really see the person walking down
the corridor, but in this photo, the lighting is bright, this
will be edited on photoshop to change this.
The characters face cannot be seen however
they are standing up straight showing that
they are being brave and that they are on a
mission and that no one can get in their way
as they have a bat for protection. They are in
the middle of the corridor giving themself
space to swing their bat if needed incase
anything jumps out at them.
In this photo it is uneven at first, I wanted to edit
this so that it looked straight, however I thought
that if I keep this way it will make the audience
feel uncomfortable because it is not straight
making them look at this for longer and tilt
their head to try and look at it straight. This
again also matches conventions of horror film
posters for example like supernatural horror film
The Evil Dead poster where the woman is trying
to reach out from the ground while a hand is
trying to drag her back down, but the photo is at
an angle.

3. QUAD CROWN THEATRICAL (LANDSCAPE) This is a medium close up shot of the
model mid gasp looking scared/worried
like they have seen something, and they
are frozen on the spot frighten. I have
chosen this shot so that their face can be
seen properly and to emphasize their
fright, which will create a sense of unease
as the protagonist has seen something the
audience can not see. This is like the
Insidious poster with the boy being the
focus with the house in the background.
The costume for this is a denim jacket and
charcoal grey T-Shirt. This has been done
again to show what time this film is set in.
Also, because this is the same character
from the theatrical poster it is finally
revealing what this character looks like, so I
have kept with the same costume from the
theatrical poster. This means the audience
will recognize the character and know they
are the same person from the other poster.
The lighting for this photo is on the right-
hand side of their face so that the light can
cast a shadow on their face and neck so
that the gasp is emphasized as they have
seen something that has scared them. This
matches the horror poster conventions as
in most of these there will be someone
like the protagonist looking petrified or
scared like they have seen something like
the Get Out poster with the protagonist in
a chair looking scared and helpless.
In this photo I have made it so that the model
is the main focus but when I edit this on
Photoshop, they will be on one side so that
the title, tagline etc, can fit on the other side,
but also so that the party crowd behind them
can be seen to juxtapose each other as parties
are seen as fun but for the protagonist this is
they are mot paying any attention to that as
they have seen something that's scared them.
This fits with the conventions of a teen horror
film with the party going on but then
something dark is happening during this and
only the protagonist has seen it.
I will be changing the lighting colour from white
to a light blue to match the graphics of the party
crowd that I will be editing in via photoshop.
Furthermore, the light blue will reflect the
characters isolation from the party and how
lost they are because of what they have seen.