There is a weapon used to

kill the victims, giving a

violent and bloody image

The colour of
the font is
red, implying
that there will
be an
element of
blood or even
unconditional
love with
revenge in
the horror
film

There is a sense of
suspicion as we
cant clearly see
their faces and a
sense of
unpredictability as
they could appear
in the dark but we
cant see them

The release date chosen in October where Halloween

takes place

The
background
could suggest
that this is
where the
killings take
place or the
sightings of
the
creature/perso
n
The setting
looks like it
could happen
during the
night or at
sunrise
because there
is the colours
of red/orange
behind him

Question 1:
How high is the standard of the production? Does the
poster have a high quality to it? Does it accurately
look like a film poster? How have you manipulated
your images?

I received two 8s out of 10 for the quality of my

poster, said to be very detailed and clean. They
saw that I have used image adjustments,
cropping text and resizing tool.

Question 2:
How does the film poster adhere to the codes and
conventions of a film poster? Have the group included
all key elements such as masthead, tagline, rating,
horror imagery, or blurb?

One person said that I have all the genre

conventions; a threatening antagonist, use of
horror colour, masthead with horror conventions,
horror related props, tagline giving narrative
details, make-up and costume fitting horror
genre. But another peer did not think that my
Masthead had horror connotations and that I had
used make-up

Question 3:
How does the film poster adhere to the
conventions of the horror genre? Is the imagery
linked to horror narrative events, key characters or
mise-en-scene?

I adhered the horror conventions by using the

colours: black, white and red which relate to
the horror genre and by including a
threatening protagonist in my poster along
with a knife to emphasise the power that the
protagonist has.

Response for film poster construction

When constructing my horror poster,
I developed my skills using Photoshop as well as my photography skills as I had to decide what
location is suitable for the background although there was different obstacles in the way, for
example; there was a poster on the door that I had to use different Photoshop manipulations so
that you couldnt see it and the background behind the antagonist in the poster was of the
cafeteria so i had to adjust the levels of contrast and the black and white point to decide which
best suited the horror genre. I switched off the lights in the room so that you could see the
shadow of the antagonist reflecting in the room. I also had to layer the original photo over a
black background so that they blended together.
I used colours like black, red and white that relate to the horror genre, for example red connotes
revenge, blood and rage.