This poster is for the 2012 horror film Sinister.
This film poster has many features of the horror genre conventions; I know this
is part of the horror genre due to how clear these conventions are.
First of all, the whole colour scheme is dark and very dull compared the blood smeared across the wall, this red blood indicates danger and is a frequent colour on posters for horror films. I will look into using this convention for my movie poster judging on how affective it looks on it. Another reason why this is obvious enough that it is part of the horror genre is the image smeared across the wall in blood by the girl is frightening, you would not have an image like this on a poster part of any other genre. The tagline “Once you see him nothing can save you” directly addresses the audience and grabs their attention to the poster as this basically indicates death, this is a typical tagline that you would find on a horror poster. The font of the title looks as if blood is dripping from it, this straight away indicates that blood is going to be involved in the film and gives away that it is potentially a horror film. This poster also follows conventions of film posters as it has a credit/ billing block at the bottom of the poster, I will have to create my own billing block to make my poster look much more realisitc. The name of the film 'sinister' is another word for 'evil' so straight away this is pretty obivous what this film is going to be as you would not name any other film in another genre by this name. At the top of the poster is says 'from the producers of paranormal activity and insidious' automatically it is going to attract a huge audience, this is because paranormal activity and insidious are really big well known/viewed horror films which had great reviews, so by putting this on the poster makes people instantly want to go and see that film.
First of all, the whole colour scheme is dark and very dull compared the blood smeared across the wall, this red blood indicates danger and is a frequent colour on posters for horror films. I will look into using this convention for my movie poster judging on how affective it looks on it. Another reason why this is obvious enough that it is part of the horror genre is the image smeared across the wall in blood by the girl is frightening, you would not have an image like this on a poster part of any other genre. The tagline “Once you see him nothing can save you” directly addresses the audience and grabs their attention to the poster as this basically indicates death, this is a typical tagline that you would find on a horror poster. The font of the title looks as if blood is dripping from it, this straight away indicates that blood is going to be involved in the film and gives away that it is potentially a horror film. This poster also follows conventions of film posters as it has a credit/ billing block at the bottom of the poster, I will have to create my own billing block to make my poster look much more realisitc. The name of the film 'sinister' is another word for 'evil' so straight away this is pretty obivous what this film is going to be as you would not name any other film in another genre by this name. At the top of the poster is says 'from the producers of paranormal activity and insidious' automatically it is going to attract a huge audience, this is because paranormal activity and insidious are really big well known/viewed horror films which had great reviews, so by putting this on the poster makes people instantly want to go and see that film.
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