The document discusses different types of film posters for horror, comedy, and comedy horror genres. Horror posters typically use dark colors like black and grey and feature close-ups of faces or eyes. Comedy posters include multiple protagonists, brighter colors, and characters smiling or with funny expressions. Comedy horror posters borrow from both genres, having a dark feel but comical character expressions. The document provides inspiration for a film poster combining elements from horror and comedy posters.

1. Film Posters Research
Laurel Wilson

2. Horror Posters

3. Horror film posters tend to be focus on dark
colours such as grey or and black. Also, from the
horror posters on the previous slide, the ones
that include people are either close up of their
faces or their eyes.
The front on the writing is bold and tends to
stand out the most of poster – as well as the
actual image
Some posters such as ‘The Apparition’ have
quotes included on them such as ‘Once you
believe you die’. This is most likely to appear in
the trailer and makes it more catchy.

4. Comedy Posters

5. Comedy posters usually include more than one
protagonist, sometimes some include several if
it is a family movie. In contrast, the colours differ
from the ones in the horror posters as they are
much more brighter and vibrant colour, these
stand out more. The background of these
posters are sometimes of a setting, or a scene
from the actual movie and the characters tend
to be smiling or have a funny facial expression.

6. Comedy Horror Posters

7. Comedy Horror posters borrow some of the
features from horror and comedy posters. While
they usually have a dark feel to them, like the
horror posters. The characters tend to have
fun/confused/comical facial expression, like comedy
posters. Some comedy horror posters include the
main protagonist, however, most usually have a
group of people.
The font in comedy horror posters vary. While some
are big and bold fonts, others have a blood type of
affect on them. Most of the font colours are either
white to stand out, or red which a regular
convention of this genre.

8. By looking at several film posters from the
horror, comedy and comedy horror genres, I
have found some inspiration. For our film poster,
I like the idea of there being the two main
protagonist in the poster and I also like the use
of facial expression in the posters (Comedy
poster inspiration). While I like the use of dark
colours, bold writing and close ups (Horror
poster inspiration)