A2 Media Studies

Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Poster: First Poster Draft

This is my first attempt at creating a poster, to begin with I chose to go with a black background. This is because black is a common colour used in the horror genre as we tend to develop a sense of fear more from darker colours than light. Secondly, the title I chose to use in my first attempt is the digital effect. This is because its simplicity created more tension as the reader is less able to understand the meaning behind it. To give the idea of our story I used the lets H, E and R to create reading behind the lines where the audience understand a bit about the story. Furthermore, I chose to add credits as well as a sentence that the film was produced by the same directors of successful movies.

Poster: Development- Title Decesions

The film name decided was 'The Possession', After considering the conventions of current horror posters my aim was to find a similar title design as to those of my genre. Although I wanted to be diverse with my trials as I felt I wanted it to be distinctive why I chose the title I did.

This is the first title, as you can see does appear to look like a horror title although it seems to have an effect of dripping blood although this tends to be more common across slasher type movies. Therefore, I decided this would not be the horror title to use as it didn't portray the image I wanted to create.

This is the title that I decided to go for, as you can see the title is deteriorating creating the effect that the story is broken, I feel this is significant as the story within the movie ends on a cliff hanger which ties in with the idea that the story is deteriorated. Furthermore it has the effect that the title has been drawn on with blood by hand, this further links to the hand prints of blood within the movie.

This title has a digital effect, I favoured this font as it had the appearance of a digital appeared similar to the timing shown on a cctv image, this is significant as in previous successful horrors such as paranormal activity a lot of emphasis was placed on the cctv camera shots. However the title does not appear scary therefore I believed it would be best suitable to use for text elsewhere upon the page.

This Title was not chosen as the features conveyed the wrong message, one of such was that it looked too curved for a horror movie and secondly it seemed to cartoon based. This allowed me to decide that this will not be the chosen title that I decide to use for my horror poster.

This is a more clown or circus based title although I felt to trial each type to see which fit best alongside my film and chosen image and I decided this didn't follow any of my conventions.

Monday, 16 January 2017

Poster: Research- similarities summary

Research of horror posters helped me identify most posters will consist of a background, main image, strap line, title and release date. From this I found that the main image will always be a snippet of the film or a key character regarding the horror film although will only give a hint. Similarly, the strap line is very significant, most of the straplines researched always left a feel of mystery and suspense creating the urge and want to know more. The strap line and main image when put together develop further as to what the plot is about as they link with each other. In relation to my sub-genre which is paranormal, I generally found that posters didn’t reveal much although would be enough to create an impression that it is from the paranormal genre. Furthermore, within the paranormal based posters, they generally had some correlation in regard to features such as strapline would link to the image which would ultimately link to the title.