Preliminary Posters

Marwa Saroya

Poster 1

What's good about it : • The use of colours black and red represent

darkness and blood which are part of the conventions of horror

• The font used for the title and ‘from the makers..’ look as if bloods dripping down- grabs the audiences attention

What’s bad about it : • Not a good quality image• Could have added a ghostly shadow to make it

scary

- It affects the audiences by making them cringe at the image of the pencil going through the hand

- Convention of horror posters – brings up the mysterious atmosphere with the dark background. Signifies that it’s a poster for a horror movie as its very gloomy.

Poster 2What's good about it :

• The overlapping of the title over the knife • Image of the youngsters looking frightened • The knife – adding the key elements of the plot

and presenting it on to the poster

What’s bad about it : • Looks a bit tacky • Image of the child shadow could be bigger and

clearer • Images are not connected

Conventions of horror –The knife with blood on it – psychological horror Shadow of the person – secretive , unknown which is common in the genre of horror and in the posters. Persuading people to find out what it is by watching the film

Poster 3 What's good about it : • The use of the knife song lyrics – (transparent

tool on Serif)• Layering of the text over image • The reflection of the title • The transparent image of the child which can’t

really be seen properly

What’s bad about it :

It has the affect of horrifying the audiences with knife nearly chopping off the fingers. The lyrics being present in poster makes it seem like it’s a psychopathic horror.

Conventions of horror film posters – the image of the child and not being able to see her clearly

Poster 4What's good about it :

• The image has direct eye contact with the audience which would immediately make the audiences feel uncomfortable

• The background – (using the transparent tool on Serif)

• The symbol – accentuating death/deadly

What’s bad about it : • The bottom words ‘You’ll hurt yourself’ could

have been placed in a better way / make the words smaller

It affects the audiences by spooking them out with the main image that grabs attention straight away

Conventions of horror film posters used are the image, the warnings ‘You’ll hurt yourself’ to horrify the audience and foreshadow that there’s trouble and danger.