Analysis of Theatrical Film Posters

Dead Man's Shoes

This is the theatrical poster in which we have taken the most inspiration from. The colour scheme is identical to ours, making the most of the colour red to make it bold and eye-catching, but also to imply the themes of our film e.g blood, death, danger, murder. We have used the silhouette effect on our own main character with him facing away from the reader, but we have removed any other features in the background, so as to draw more focus to the character and to make the poster more minimalist. Similarly we have differed the colour of the text, highlighting some words in white for specific effect.

Friday the 13th

There are some aspects from this poster that could have inspired us towards the final design of our own poster, mainly the position of the iconic villian (Jason Vorhees) in the centre holding a weapon. Again, similarly to the Dead Man's Shoes poster there is the use of red and white coloured text. The tag-line at the top of the poster is in white so it is visible against the black background, and the  title of the film is in red, which is a major convention of the horror genre.

Thor

Whilst this poster for Thor is not relatable to our own poster it is interesting to note that it is almost nearly identical in its layout to the Friday the 13th poster. The tag-line is in white and is positioned at the top of the poster. The centre of the poster is then dominated by the films main protagonist, much like the Friday the 13th poster but much closer and bolder. This is probably because Thor is a superhero as opposed to a sinister killer like Jason Voorhees. The title Thor is in red text, which again makes the film's title eye-catching and powerful, and also shows that it does not have to be a colour limited to the convention of the horror genre.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Again much like the Thor poster, the genre for this film is not the same as our our films genre, but the layout and design of the poster is surprisingly similar to the one we have created for our own film. Firstly the red background is an obvious similarity, but it is effective due to it being an eye-catching colour and also supporting lots of suggestive themes such as blood, danger etc. Whilst they may not wholly apply to Scott Pilgrim they certainately apply to The Art of Evil. The main protagonist like Thor and Friday the 13th is again placed in the middle with the tag-line beneath him.