Poster Comparison

This image shows I have followed the codes and conventions for a Film Poster. It compares both my own poster to a professionally made poster and shows how it was layed out in comparison.

The poster I made uses direct audience address as the image is looking straight forwards, this is good as the audience are drawn in to look at the poster. The picture is almost like one of those pictures which would creep you out as it feels like you are being watched. It works well as the strange feeling which the audience get from looking at the poster gives them the feeling they could get from watching the actually film.

The colours used in the picture have been done using thoughts of semiotics and how colours can represent something, having the black background gives it a dark, mysterious, evil, gloomy feeling these all link with the genre of film. The red on the poster uses semiotics to link with evil, blood, devil, guts and other nasty things but could also link off to show things to do with love.

The text and fonts look good as they linjk with the colour scheme and the overall look of the poster. They are stand out on the black round and tell the audinece any needed information they need to know.

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