Monday, 11 October 2010

Conventions of movie posters within the horror genre

  • • Dark lighting is generally used in horror film posters along with dark colours such as black and the colour red, which is usually associated with death and blood.
  • • Bright lighting or the colour white are generally used to contrast the dark colours, which creates a mysterious almost supernatural atmosphere to the poster.
  • • Shadows are used in horror film posters, which creates a sense of mystery when the audience views the poster.
  • • In all film posters an image is used to try and instil fear into the audience while at the same time giving a slight hint as to what the films plot is.
  • • Horror posters tend to have some sort of tagline or synopsis on them. This is used to first of all give the audience a tiny peak as to what the films plotline is but also it used to create fear in the audience.
  • • A symbol of what is scary in the film is used in a lot of film posters for example a Wicker man used on the Blair Witch Project film poster.
  • Antagonist vs protagonist
  • Stock characters
  • Stock Situations
These are all part of a formula that horror film produces use to help the audience recgonise that the film they are going to watch is from a particular genre.

No comments:

Post a Comment