After looking at these four magazine front covers, three film posters and four trailers we decided our sub-genre of our genre was going to be supernatural thriller. All the magazines I had analysed were action thriller genre. I am now going on to analyze one more of each to give me ideas for my own.
The unborn: Film poster.
- The film title has been placed about 3/4 of the way down the poster. The typography is a large white/grey distorted font. This font already indicates that the film may include an aspect of horror or supernatural. Its very important for our film poster that we make indications to our genre by the colours and fonts we include.
The font on the film poster is all in the same font just in different sizes. The typography varies. The top piece of text informs the viewer that it is based on a true story, this makes the film seem more exciting/scary, as it has an element of real life. The next piece of text down says "under the shadow of silence she will never know peace again" this font is shadowed by red writing in the same font. Although the genre is supernatural thriller this gives an element of horror as the red could represent blood.
The writing at the bottom is small in comparison to the other writing. This is because it is not necessary that it gets read. This writing contains information about the producer and famous people that are starring in the film. This may only be read by someone if they were particularly interested in this aspect of a film.
The main picture is made up of black/greens and greys this suggests the genre as if it were a comedy you would assume the poster would be bright and friendly. This is the opposite showing the viewer that it sways more to the thriller/horror genre's.
The picture is an image of a girl lying in a hospital bed, she is lying flat facing towards the viewer with her eyes shut. Behind her you can see the rest of the hospital room, it looks frightening and eerie. Underneath the bed is another girl she looks slightly raised of the floor suggesting she is a spirit or a ghost or something out of this world. She is facing upwards towards the girl lying in the bed this shows there is a connection between the two girls. This could indicate that this girl below the bed is the girl lying in the beds ghost/spirit or someone that is haunting her.
I was unable to find a magazine front cover for the unborn so I decided to look at "The Shining" :
The Shining: Magazine front cover.
This magazine front cover is advertising the film the shining.
The magazine is simple and not crowded, this is effective as it allows the reader to be able to follow the magazine front cover instead of getting confused because it is to over crowded.
The magazine is called "Empire" -Empire is written in large bold font, it is coloured in pink. This colour and typography is actually very eye catching. The title sets the colour theme for the front cover. Above the title and slightly overlapping it is "The 500 Greatest Movies of all time" This is in 3d writing. The word 'Movies' sets the genre of the magazine it shows that it about films.
The main image of the page is overlapped with other text and colours, these are other features of the magazine. This is done so that if the reader isn't interested in the main feature there is something else for them to look at.
The Background of the magazine front cover is black, this contrasts with the pink and white writing giving it a striking effect.
The main image is of a man looking through what looks like a whole in a fence. The fence is grey/white which contrasts with his tanned skin. His eyes are dark and are focusing on something. His teeth are very white contrasting with the black shadows on his face. He is baring his teeth at something showing a sign of anger. There is text over this image saying "I'm not gonna hurt ya.. I'm just gonna bash your brains in" this is something to attract the reader to the film. This little snippet of the script will intrest the reader and make them want to find out what has happened.
The barcode at the bottom of the magazine is a standard convention of a magazine aswell as the price and issue number.
I continued looking at "The Shining" by analysing the trailer:
The trailer begins with its production label "Warner Brothers" This is to promote the company but also to promote the film because if people have seen Warner Brothers films before and liked them they will be more inclined to see this movie.
A voice-over begins immediately explaining a story and revealing parts of the story line. The voice-over is a man's voice.
We are presented with some running footage of a car driving up to a large house in a very secluded area we are then shown around the house. It then moves onto footage of what looks like a hospital corridor just as the voice-over is saying "During the winter he must of suffered some kind of complete mental break down" This builds the tension and forewarns the viewer of what may happen.
We are then shown a man leaving a garage holding an axe, his face is not visible and you are only able to see a silhouette but it allows the reader to connect this man with the man that " suffered the complete mental breakdown"
The voice over finishes by saying "Killed his family with an axe" then the music starts, it is upbeat and high pitch.
We are then shown almost a film montage of lots of different shots that last for about 5 seconds or different main parts of the film. They don't give to much away so a lot of the time the viewer is left in suspense.
When these shots appear we are able to guess who the main character is (the one who had the mental breakdown) because of his continuously menacing and evil looks.
At 2.06 minutes the camera seems to be in someone's eye0line view, the camera is chasing a women down a corridor. This creates tension and makes the viewer scared.
A little boy is featured throughout the trailer. This will make some people feel more scared as he is unable to fend for himself.
The mise en scene give us clues into what genre this trailer is. The knifes show a sense of horror but thriller at the same time. The fact that he seems to be haunting them also shows it could be a physiological thriller.
The trailer picks up the upbeat music again towards the end.
It finishes with the title coming up in a red typography.
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