Poster Influences!

For our film poster for our horror teaser trailer, We decided to get familiar with other horror film posters in order to give a slight idea as to how we could create our poster. This helped with the layout of film posters and also helped to decide the shot we will use for our main image on the poster.The following images obtained from research shows us a clear convention used to make the posters effective. They tend to follow a trend of a dark background. As shown below, they have obscured the eyes in some way as the eyes are generally what create a personal connection with the audience. Furthermore, the most emotion comes from how the eyes look. This has influenced us to follow in the same pattern and create a poster with a doll’s face to be the main image to achieve the effect of binary opposition where the doll is stereo typically supposed to be an innocent toy for girls but instead it is the main reason for the supernatural events. 

This is the film poster for the film 'Dead Silence'. As you can see the poster only consists of three main colours, red white and black and this is conventional to horror film posters as most of them only consist of three main colours. The colours all contrast well together and match well with the genre showing the audience that it is a horror film. The typography of the title is written in white and the font is unique and blurred in order to give the audience a blurred vision and to make it more effective towards horror. There is a only one image used in this poster which is of a doll and since our horror teaser trailer is based on a doll we decided to get ideas from this poster. The image is a close-up shot and the action that the doll is doing matches with the title of the film. Although the poster is very simple, it still allows the audience to know the genre of the film through the different elements such as the tag line which says 'You scream, You die' which would attract an audience looking to watch a horror film.

The 'Bride of Chucky' film poster also consists of three main colours which are black, red and white. The background of the poster is all faded black which is similar to most horror posters which has given me an idea as to how our background for the film poster could be. There is a close of shot of half the faces of two dolls. The eye on one of the dolls is blue and on the other is green suggesting evil. One of the dolls consists of scars on his face which shows pain and violence has been involved. This suggests that something bad will be happening in the film and could attract the audiences attention as they would begin to wonder how them scars had got there. As violence along with a lot of darkness is shown, this represents the genre making it clear that it is a horror film. The tag line which says 'Chucky Gets Lucky' is very short and simple. It does not give too much information out to the audience but it rhymes and this may give excitement to the audience and be effective towards the genre.

'The conjuring' film poster is quite different to the other two posters we looked at. It still carries the dark conventions however it is not as dark and the background is not black like the others. There is a dull colour palette used here and the colours are mainly black, grey and white (still three colours used throughout). we decided to look at this poster, as the film also consists a doll which is where we got out idea for our horror teaser trailer for. It was one of our main influences and so the poster will also help with ours. In this poster they use a long-shot and the image is not very clear to the audience, however we can see a child sitting on a chair with a doll on her lap. The child is facing the other way which creates mystery for the audience as to who it could be, however the audience are able to see a little bit of the dolls face. The typography of the title is written in a white bold font in binary opposition to the background and so it stands out and is clear to the audience.