Draft 1 Poster Analysis

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Indicates that the film is in production. However once the editing is finished, I will use a date to make it more specific. The date will be around Halloween time as that is my intended release date. Capital letters used to grab the audience’s attention and make the date memorable. This brings it into the foreground as it becomes more prominent. The background will be of a classrooms board, showing students work as it is an indexical sign of the films location, in a school. This acts as another indexical sign because the films location is conventional in horrors. I plan to use an actual scene from the film, allowing the audience to have an idea of the film. I also plan to edit the background of my poster in a more grungy style, which is influenced from my poster research. My intention is to create juxtaposition between the foreground and background to highlight the image in the foreground and show the contrast between traditional learning methods of pen and paper versus technology and its dominance in today’s society. Computer keyboard and mouse reinforces the technology element in the film, acting as an enigma code for the audience. The protagonist’s back, looking at the screen is a scene from my production. I wanted to use this scene as the lack of detail creates an enigma of the struggle of identity the character. Production institution is labeled to attract possible fans of the institute. This is also a conventional in posters. A tagline is not only a convention in posters but is also used as a marketing technique, making it even more memorable to the audience. My tagline refers to the protagonist’s connection to technology seen in my production. I have capitalized the title, to make it more captivating to the audience. This is a conventional feature of horror posters that I decided to conform to. I use red coloured font, a conventional colour of horror, which signifies death, danger and blood. I wanted to include the possessed protagonist’s eyes on the computer screen, looking back at the audience to use as an enigma code. The eyes have multiple meanings such as being the eyes of the antagonist, personifying the technological element as well as the innocence of the protagonist. Eyes conventional in horror posters as they are the “window to the soul”, showing the characters true emotions. As technology is one of the main elements of my production, I wanted to mirror that in my poster as an enigma code for my audience.

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Indicates  that  the  film  is  in  production.  However  once  the  editing  is  finished,  I  will  use  a  date  to  make  it  more  specific.  

The  date  will  be  around  Halloween  time  as  that  is  my  intended  release  date.    Capital  letters  used  to  grab  the  audience’s  attention  

and  make  the  date  memorable.  This  brings  it  into  the  foreground  as  it  becomes  more  prominent.  

The  background  will  be  of  a  classrooms  board,  showing  students  work  as  it  is  an  indexical  sign  of  the  films  location,  in  a  school.  This  acts  as  another  indexical  sign  because  the  films  location  is  conventional  in  horrors.  I  plan  to  use  an  actual  scene  from  the  film,  allowing  the  audience  to  have  an  idea  of  the  film.      I  also  plan  to  edit  the  background  of  my  poster  in  a  more  grungy  style,  which  is  influenced  from  my  poster  research.  My  intention  is  to  create  juxtaposition  between  the  foreground  and  background  to  highlight  the  image  in  the  foreground  and  show  the  contrast  between  traditional  learning  methods  of  pen  and  paper  versus  technology  and  its  dominance  in  today’s  society.    

Computer  keyboard  and  mouse  reinforces  the  technology  element  in  the  film,  acting  as  an  enigma  code  for  the  audience.    

The  protagonist’s  back,  looking  at  the  screen  is  a  scene  from  my  production.  I  wanted  to  use  this  scene  as  the  lack  of  detail  creates  an  enigma  of  the  struggle  of  identity  the  character.  

Production  institution  is  labeled  to  attract  possible  fans  of  the  institute.  This  is  also  a  conventional  in  posters.  

A  tagline  is  not  only  a  convention  in  posters  but  is  also  used  as  a  marketing  technique,  making  it  even  more  memorable  to  the  audience.  

My  tagline  refers  to  the  protagonist’s  connection  to  technology  seen  in  my  production.      

I  have  capitalized  the  title,  to  make  it  more  captivating  to  the  audience.  This  is  a  conventional  feature  of  horror  posters  that  I  decided  to  conform  to.      I  use  red  coloured  font,  a  conventional  colour  of  horror,  which  signifies  death,  danger  and  blood.  

I  wanted  to  include  the  possessed  protagonist’s  eyes  on  the  computer  screen,  looking  back  at  the  audience  to  use  as  an  enigma  code.  The  eyes  have  multiple  meanings  such  as  being  the  eyes  of  the  antagonist,  personifying  the  technological  element  as  well  as  the  innocence  of  the  protagonist.  Eyes  conventional  in  horror  posters  as  they  are  the  “window  to  the  soul”,  showing  the  characters  true  emotions.    

As  technology  is  one  of  the  main  elements  of  my  production,  I  wanted  to  mirror  that  in  my  poster  as  an  enigma  code  for  my  audience.