analysis of film posters

The fuzzy style writing as well as the time an the picture of the film indicates that it is a film recorded on a video recorder camera. The picture is also in a house showing the target audience that it is a home made video. The baby is grabbing onto the cot creating a sence of fear and terror, also the dog is barking showing the target audience that something or someone is their, this creates tention and suspence as you dont know what is there.The text is blurry and is a deep red colour creating a horror effect. The unusual text sends a thrill to the audience as the colours used are associated with blood and death. The dark image and black background shows that the film is centred around darkness, this tells us the genre.When you first look at the poster you instantly focus your eyes on the centre, this gives the effect that we are not the only ones watching the charecters. The quote about the film sends shivers throught the audience as they are warned their sleepness nights are about to return. The poster not only indicates it is the second film but making the audience excited to see what happens to make them experience sleepless nights again as the lasrt film did.


























The image used a closeup of a woman's face, with a person's silhouete in the background is very powerful. The main actress' name spreads across the width of the page in white text. The use of white enables the text to stand out against the dark background. As Jodie Foster is a well known actress, her presence in the film may alone attract the audience. At the bottom of the poster, beneath the title, are the names of the crew and cast this is often seen in film posters. This poster has a simple colour scheme of black, white and red. Only the film title, panis room and the words coming soon are in red. As the rest of the page is in black white grey these two text are extremely prominant. This is vital as essentially the film title and release date are most important when promoting a film. The use of the word panic and the poster image clearly represent the film as a horror.