Poster Research-'Prom Night'

The poster for the film ‘Prom Night’ also uses the codes and conventions for the typical poster. It has one main picture with one main title. It also uses a slogan, has writing that tells the audience when the film shall be coming out and includes other information about the producers etc.

The poster shows just the mouth of a person screaming this is good, as it doesn’t show the audience who it is and it doesn’t give away too much, but makes the audience presume that the film may be scary and be a thriller or horror genre film.

It also uses a colour scheme which gives the dark, scary, thriller feeling such as black and red with a little bit of white. Which uses semiotics with colours representing different things like the red could be blood, making the audience think that there could be blood in the film etc.

From looking at this poster it has made think about where about I showed put the title on the poster, because on the ‘Saw IV’ poster it has it in the middle whereas on the other posters the title is at the bottom of it.