As our chosen genre is horror I have taken into account what is needed to create a successful horror film poster and thereby have annotated 4 posters from the horror genre, 2 good ones and 2 not so good. Our poster needs to possess the characteristics needed from the good poster whilst at the same time avoiding the elements taken from the bad posters.
Good poster number 1 - 'Paranormal activity'
After annotating this poster for the horror film 'Paranormal activity' I can tell why this was such a success. The poster is dark and mysterious and poses plenty of questions to whoever may be looking at it, such as 'should I see it alone?' 'What could that be at the door?' 'What exactly does happen when I sleep?'. The film is supposed to be a nightmare giver, and with a poster such as this it is easy to see as to why. It is really effective in the way in which the review is used at the top of the poster, the comments send chills down my spine as I want to know whether this film really is 'one of the scariest films of all time'. This poster is really effective as it immediately leaves me wanting more and if I hadn't already seen it, then I would want to now.
Good poster number 2 - 'The Blair Witch Project'
The second 'good' poster that I have decided to analyse is the 'blair witch project', this film poster is very effective in the sense that it doesn't give much away about the film at all. This poster much like the 'paranormal activity' one poses many questions which need to be uncovered.
use media terminology - posing questions is called 'Enigma'
ReplyDelete