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This document analyzes print advertisements for the films Star Trek and Harry Potter. For the Star Trek magazine cover, the author notes that the grey/silver color scheme and futuristic fonts effectively promote the sci-fi genre. The close-up shot of Chris Pine draws attention to the featured actor. For the Harry Potter magazine cover, bust shots of characters amid broken glass promotes the fantasy genre by depicting magic. The Star Trek movie poster again features Chris Pine and includes sci-fi elements like a spaceship. The Harry Potter poster frames rivals and focuses on the Elder Wand to symbolize the fantasy genre of magic. Both posters use dark colors that connote their respective genres.
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Poster analysis a nightmare on elm street
This film poster promotes the 1984 slasher film "A Nightmare on Elm Street". It features a medium close-up image of the antagonist Freddy Krueger, wearing his signature bladed glove and hat, establishing the killer and genre for audiences. Large red text at the top displays the title and tagline "Welcome to your new nightmare", while smaller fonts at the bottom provide institutional details and the release date. The poster effectively teases the plot and builds intrigue without revealing too much, drawing in viewers through iconic imagery and ominous text.
Research Into Film Posters
The document analyzes several film posters and discusses conventions used in film posters based on focus group feedback. Key conventions highlighted include having the film title in the largest font at the top, credits and release information in smaller font at the bottom, and featuring the main actors. Focus groups found crime/thriller posters most appealing when they included money, weapons and intimidating characters posed in action shots on a dark background.
Analyse existing media texts
The document analyzes several movie posters and magazine covers, describing their visual elements and how they convey information to viewers. It discusses the Amityville Horror poster's use of dark colors and a figure holding a gun to suggest a killer is involved. It also examines posters for Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, noting visual cues like weapons, villains, and taglines that establish the films' genres and draw interest. Magazine covers for I Am Legends and Shutter Island are summarized, focusing on how imagery, text, and stars are used to inform viewers of the films' genres, plots, and main characters.
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This document outlines the proposed poster designs for the film project "What The...?". It describes three poster designs: a teaser poster featuring a silhouette of Sarah Miller in a window, a theatrical poster showing the protagonist Imani walking down a dimly lit corridor with a baseball bat, and a quad poster with a mid-shot of Imani looking worried in a crowd. The designs aim to attract horror and teen audiences and position the film as a supernatural thriller set in the 1980s focusing on a strong black female protagonist protecting her brother. The posters will be advertised on social media, buses, shopping centers, and billboards to target the target demographic of 15-30 year olds.
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This movie poster for Avatar uses a simple yet striking design. The alien face in rich blue catches the eye with its green staring eye. The title "Avatar" is in a soft, jungle-themed font linking to the film's exotic setting. Dark blue and black colors keep the poster attractive and simple against a plain, mysterious shadow background. Focus is drawn to the key alien image without unnecessary distractions.
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The document provides analysis of three horror/thriller movie posters. It discusses genre conventions like dark backgrounds, limited color schemes, and the villain or main character centered. It then analyzes three specific posters, noting elements like blurred faces in the background of one and the shocked expression of a woman in another. The analyses highlight elements incorporated into the author's own poster plans, such as dark spaces surrounding characters and hidden villains. The document concludes posters provide less information to build intrigue before a film's release.
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Halloween is a highly influential and successful slasher film from 1978. The film is set around the traditional American holiday of Halloween and features Michael Myers, referred to as "HE", a mysterious killer. The movie poster utilizes several horror film conventions including a dark color scheme, images of knives and a cracked pumpkin, and positioning of the title in bold orange text to convey the dark and disturbing themes of the film and draw in audiences.
Poster analysis 3
This poster analyzes a film poster for "A Nightmare on Elm Street". It summarizes that the poster prominently features the antagonist Freddy Krueger to attract audiences through brand recognition. It depicts him in a medium close-up that reveals identifying characteristics while maintaining some mystery. Typography and color cues like the title in red capital letters signal the slasher genre. Placing less important text at the bottom focuses viewers on key elements that will promote interest in and memory of the film.
Movie posters powerpoint 2
This movie poster for Date Night aims to involve the adult and teenage audience through its use of bright yet not gloomy colors and imagery of the married main characters without context, provoking curiosity. The lack of a tagline leaves the plot ambiguous. The white text and red line make the title stand out centrally between the characters' images, with the actors' names at the top. Though unrealistic due to depicting a date, the scenario of a married couple going out remains realistic subject matter.
Movie posters powerpoint 2
This movie poster for The Matrix uses dark colors like black, blue and violet. It features the main characters in the center to draw attention. There is no tagline, leaving the audience guessing. The purpose is to appeal to the target audience while also making people appreciate the artistic design through its simplicity and effective use of color and layout.
Evaluation - Question 2
The document analyzes the ways in which a film trailer uses and develops conventions of real media products in the horror genre. It finds that the trailer uses many established horror conventions, including nightmares, characters being followed, jump scares, ominous music, research into evil antagonists, bloody violence, and cliffhanger endings. Some conventions are challenged through minor changes to layout and placement of elements, but overall the trailer firmly adheres to genre conventions to effectively convey a horror story and appeal to audiences familiar with the style.
Media magazines and posters
This magazine cover features James McAvoy prominently, indicating he is the main character of the featured film. It has two covers to collect, showing the two sides of the story through different colors. Being the "only magazine on set" suggests this is the best source of information about the film. The unique selling point is that the film is part of the popular X-Men franchise, attracting fans.
Analysis of film posters
This document analyzes promotional film posters for the horror genre. It discusses several key elements of horror film posters, including the use of dark colors like black to set an ominous tone; centering a prominent image that catches the viewer's eye; using lighting and facial expressions to convey emotion and intrigue; including relevant text information about the film's title, actors, and genre; and utilizing rhetorical questions or intriguing phrases to encourage viewers to learn more about the film. Overall, the document examines how horror movie posters employ design techniques to attract attention and effectively promote the intended genre.
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- 2. Star Trek - In my opinion, I think this magazine cover is very effective. It follows all the typical conventions of a magazine layout, and uses the colour scheme for best effects to promote the film's genre. Film Magazine Covers
- 3. From the grey/silver and white colour scheme, the audience can automatically see that Star Trek is a sci-fi/fantasy film. The fonts also help to promote the conventions of this genre, using bold, sharp fonts that give a modern feel - or futuristic in the terms of sci-fi. The image of Chris Pine, is very close up and personal. This gives the suggestion that this actor is featured inside the magazine, so if you like him as an actor, you would want to read it. The puffs and sell lines are featured to be around the actor's face, so the audience can easily see who he is - making the attention drawn to him. The sky line which is in red, doesn't stand out enough for me. I don't think it contrasts well to the blackness of the top of the picture - although I think the house style of the black, white and red is very effective.
- 4. Harry Potter – The layout of this cover page is a lot busier than the Total Film cover. The blue and red colours aren’t typical colours that would be used for the fantasy genre.
- 5. The bottom of the cover is very effective, making it seem like Harry is smashing some glass with his wand. This makes it feel very realistic but also promoting the fantasy genre – making it feel like ‘magic’. The midshot of Daniel Radcliffe is effective as it shows his costume – he isn’t wearing his Hogwarts uniform so this tells the reader that the films are coming to an end. The images of the other characters also help to promote the fact that it’s the same familiar faces that will be in the film. This also follows the conventions of the fantasy genre as their faces are in the pieces of glass – making it seem magic and effective.
- 6. Film Posters – Star Trek
- 7. The main focus of the poster is the same image used on the magazine cover – Chris Pine. If people like him as an actor, they will already be sold on going to see this film – thus making it effective. The small print at the bottom of the poster is professional, with all the basic information that the audience need. The mast head ‘Star Trek’ is positioned in the middle bottom on the page – making it stand out and eye catching. It also follows the sci-fi genre colour scheme of silver which has connotations of being futuristic.
- 8. Connotations of Sci-fi In the background you can see what looks like a spaceship – this is an obvious prop used for the sci-fi genre as it’s very futuristic. The dark colours of blue, black and silver connotes the sci-fi genre. Also in the background, you can see one of the characters on some kind of motorbike – this also looks very futuristic.
- 9. Harry Potter
- 10. The two main rival characters are facing each other, framing this poster. This follows the realism that this is ‘the end’. There is very little text at the bottom of the poster, giving the basic details of when the film is out There is no title for the poster, just the Harry Potter website at the bottom in small writing. This tells the audience that this film is so famous and popular, that the must go and see it.
- 11. Connotations of Fantasy The whole poster is based around the wand in the middle. If you were a Harry Potter fan, you would know that it’s the Elder wand – the most powerful one. This promotes the fantasy genre that the whole film is based around magic The special effects around the wand promote the magic feel Similar to the sci-fi genre, the dark colours of black and white promotes the genre. A traditional magician’s wand is black and white