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The Scream movie poster uses multiple techniques to convey suspense and tension. The pale female face with a hand over the mouth suggests impending death. Her eyes convey distress and seem to be losing safety and hope as the blue fades, with just a hint of dark red lip color remaining. The close-up camera angle and the woman's direct gaze make the viewer feel uncomfortable and draw them in. The block capital title "SCREAM" works together with the image to tease out the mystery of who is behind the hand without resolving it, compelling viewers to watch the film to find out.
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Poster Analysis Two
This poster analyzes the poster for the psychological horror film "The Silence of the Lambs". It summarizes that the poster depicts Jodie Foster's character Clarice with a moth covering her mouth, suggesting she has a secret. Through the use of colors like red and black, as well as lighting and Clarice's eyes, the poster conveys a creepy and mysterious atmosphere. It also effectively draws in audiences by hinting at the deeper narrative without revealing too much, making viewers want to learn more by watching the film.
POSTER ANALYSIS - THE UNBORN
This poster for the film "The Unborn" follows horror film conventions while also breaking some. It depicts a woman looking in a mirror and seeing a boy staring back at her, enticing viewers to learn their relationship. The dark tones signal an unsettling film. Gender and age are prominently featured, with an attractive young female protagonist and a male ghost child to avoid confusion. Elements like the boy's old-fashioned outfit and the bathroom setting suggest the supernatural genre. The poster aims to attract male viewers through the vulnerable depiction of the female protagonist.
Film Poster Overview
The document analyzes eight film posters for psychological horror movies and identifies common design patterns. All posters feature regular conventions like the title being the largest text and an image hinting at the narrative. Most prominently feature female protagonists undergoing mental anguish. Five posters use close-up shots of the distressed female lead. Color schemes and lighting create ominous atmospheres. The posters entice viewers with unsettling images before revealing the title and taglines relating to the plot.
Poster overview
The document analyzes 7 film posters for possession horror movies to understand how to effectively design a poster for a possession horror film. It finds that the posters all feature:
1) A dominant central image that conveys something important about the film's narrative, often showing a possessed child suffering.
2) Horrific and disturbing imagery meant to scare audiences, like a decomposed hand emerging from a mouth.
3) Cold colors like red, black, and white that create a sinister feel.
4) The largest and boldest title at the bottom below the image to draw attention.
By understanding the conventions of existing effective posters, the document provides knowledge for designing a successful possession horror film poster.
Poster analyses
The document analyzes several movie posters, summarizing key elements and techniques used:
The Black Dahlia poster uses dark red text on white to represent death covering happiness. Legend prominently features the main characters and title in bold, noting it is based on a true story. The Dark Corner uses bright colors against a dark background to draw the eye to the title and actors. Positioning and lighting of characters are analyzed to infer plot details and character traits. Effective poster techniques highlighted include using contrast to make important elements stand out and conveying personality through lighting.
Poster analyses
The document analyzes several movie posters and summarizes key techniques used:
1) Posters use contrasting colors to make important information like titles and actor names stand out from the background. Positioning and lighting of characters can also provide clues about the plot and their roles.
2) The Legend poster positions the two main characters equally, showing they have the same power, unlike posters where one towers over the other.
3) Film noir conventions like men peering through blinds and femme fatales are identifiable in The Dark Corner poster. Lighting suggests one character needs help while the other is optimistic.
Poster overview
The document analyzes six movie posters for possession horror films. It finds that all the posters share common elements like a dominant image, title, and slogan. Nearly all feature an innocent child protagonist who becomes possessed, terrifying audiences by threatening families. The child characters often have their faces hidden or are turning into the background, suggesting their innocence is being consumed by evil. Imagery of decaying hands, ghostly figures, and distorted bodies aim to terrify without using masked killers or blood. Color palettes of red, black, and white create a sinister feel. Overall, the posters effectively promote their films as possession horrors through frightening visuals and consistency in design conventions.
Horror Film Poster Analysis
The poster depicts an old woman sitting alone in a dark, dingy room holding a creepy doll. Details like scratches on the walls, shadows on the floor, and the woman's posture imply something supernatural or terrifying has occurred. The poster uses conventions like a dark color scheme, isolated central image, and taglines to promote the film as a supernatural horror and attract audiences interested in the genre.
Marketing
The document discusses and analyzes various marketing techniques used to promote the horror film The Descent, including its trailer, movie poster, billboards, and website. The trailer focuses on trapping the girls and hints at horror without showing gore. Both the poster and trailer depict a girl emerging from blood and darkness. Billboards also use similar dark, isolated themes and emphasize positive reviews. However, the movie poster had to be redesigned after the 7/11 London bombings due to depicting trapped women. The website follows the dark color scheme and hints at a sole survivor like other advertisements.
Film poster analysis
The film poster analyzes Gone Girl, focusing on three key elements. First, Ben Affleck's character is grieving the loss of his missing wife, represented by eyes in the sky, showing she is at peace. Second, Affleck's lonely and guarded body language suggests he may be hiding something. Third, the location of a large lake could be where the wife died or disappeared, making it important to understanding the story. The poster emphasizes the man's grief over his missing wife to appeal to audiences.
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Research of slasher movie tropes
The document discusses several common character archetypes and conventions in slasher movies:
- The Jock is often seen as the false hero who fails to save the group. The Stoner provides comic relief. The Token Minority and Promiscuous Girl are often the first killed. The Main Male and Final Girl are the most sympathetic and often the last surviving.
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Horror ville
The magazine uses conventions in unconventional ways to create intrigue and unease in potential buyers. The masthead is placed behind the main image rather than overlaying it, hiding the disturbing Pennywise figure and adding mystery. Green, black, and white colors symbolize death and lack of life, signaling the magazine's horror content. Cover stories are placed along the bottom in eye-catching images to draw attention and inquiry within 3 seconds. Celebrating Stephen King pays homage to his work while appealing to different demographics and consideration of audience feedback.
Final evaluation question
(1) At the start of the preliminary task, the author was uncertain of their goals but creating surveys to get audience feedback opened their mind to different design possibilities. (2) The preliminary task helped prepare the author for the main task, which they found easier having learned from the preliminary experience. (3) The author has learned to use Photoshop, InDesign, and other programs at a higher level and has adapted different techniques to improve their skills as a media student.
Evaluation question 5
The document discusses various technologies used in creating a media product and key things learned from each. Photoshop taught masking objects instead of using the lasso tool. InDesign allowed placing images behind text and was more professional than Photoshop. Using an actual camera demonstrated how difficult getting the right shot can be and the importance of positioning, environment, and camera steadiness. Prezi was initially disliked but taught that images must be inserted rather than pasted to avoid blurriness. SlideShare was easy to use but has limits, though it allowed converting PowerPoint slides for online presentations.
Evaluation question 4
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- 2. The screamposteris a combinationofmultiple differentmediatechniques/skills and representations.Analyzingthe taglineoftheposterit relaysto the audiencewhatisgoing tohappenwithinshortsentenceswhich Todorovcallsnarrativefunctions. Throughoutthis slideshow I will bedeconstructingthe Screamposterpresent while alsoattemptinganalysethe subliminalconnotationshidden within the poster. The tagline statesthat"someonehastakentheirlove ofscarymovies one steptoofarsolving thismysteryis going tobemurder"showshowthe posterbreaksthe fourthwallbycalling outtoother'scarymovies' statingthatthisis going tobethe bestof late.Behind thetypographythereisalayer ofdarknessdescending ontothe women'sfaceandalsofromthebottomwherethe castingcrew is placedthe darknessis ascending whichdisplays the womantolookas if she isbeing swallowedup bythedarknessslowlygoing pale.
- 3. The main image of the poster has a pale women's face and a hand covering her mouth. Generally grey and paleness have convey connotations of death or that something is dying, which could necessarily be a death flag within the very poster of the film alerting the audience. To continue from this the women is also making direct address with the audience (done by looking directly into the lens) this conveys a disturbing feeling of tension, distress and suspense while looking at the poster. Also the females left eye seems to be glaring at something else while the right eye is predominately focused on the audience which conveys disturbance within the narrative. Her eyes are actually blue however due to the black and white effect of the poster it makes her eyes the main focal point of the poster that catches people, as the blue in her eyes seem to be fading away this can also convey the connotations of blue which is safety peace freedom however its fading so this woman is most likely losing these aspects of her life. Also there is Juxtaposition between the face and the whole poster as everything is covered in darkness which means that there is no hope however her eyes see hope. Along with this her lips have some little colour left within them which is a dark red which has connotations to death and blood linking back to the narrative of the poster and
- 4. • Furthermore the title of the film is called 'Scream' is in block capitals which makes it one of the most predominate factors of the poster. The woman tries to scream but her mouth is then covered by a hand, the camera angle this was shot in was a close up which puts the audience in an uncomfortable position being this close to someone's face which actually allows the image to show her distress. The title and the main image bounce off of each other well as they don't feel displaced or in any case don't belong to the same worlds, even with the letter 'M' the peak of the 'M' is lowered to represent the look of a blade which further signifies the genre of this poster. Further more the more frightening thing about this poster is that the hand actually covering her mouth could generally be her(s) or someone else and that suspense factor is what drives people to watch these movies with a sense of unknowing.