Summary of Codes and Conventions Research

Film Poster

Initial Research

• Once we had decided our initial idea, we researched into unnatural horror movies that focused around cult, human sacrifice and religion.

• We liked the film “The Wicker Man” as a film that we could research in to for creative ideas. However, when I came to look at the film poster and the website, I could not find them due to it being such an old film.

• Because of this, I looked into another film that we had looked at, “Silent Hill”. This film is about an isolated town and so links closely to our idea. When I looked at the poster and website I really liked the style and so I decided to fill out the codes and conventions based on this research.

Information about the film

Description of the poster

Colour palette and layout

Images and representation

Tone of text

Industry information

What should my poster feature?

Genre conventions

My opinion

What can I conclude from this research?

• The research that I have done into this poster is conventional of the horror genre as it has dark colours and unusual editing styles.

• I will use this research in the production of my poster by thinking about using a simple picture that could be edited to look more sinister and unreal.