Saturday, January 06, 2007

Practice timed essay...
The function of this film poster is to entertain the audience providing pleasure to the audience. A film poster is used to inform the audience of the film so they are aware of it.

The film poster is very plain as it only has 1 dominant image in the centre of the page. The colour used on the name of the film is a dull grey colour. This could represent that the film has sadness. The main colour and the colour used for the background is a creamy white. This colour can represent pure and could represent endless. We can see nothing else in the picture, which could me a sigh of confusion in the film either for the characters or enigma for the audience. Enigma is a theory of Bathes and enigmas are useful in a film to keep the audience entertained and pleasure so they don’t get bored.

The main image is of the protagonist, a teenage girl. This as a result will result in teenage girls being the primary target audience as they will be able to relate to her resulting in identification. The secondary audience of this film are people who are interested in the genre of the film that involves enigmas. This means that the film poster will persuade a mainstream audience as it is a popular genre.

The girl, herself can give confused messages. This is because she is dressed in red riding hood clothes. This means that she innocent and is standing in a large object maybe used to kill people. This takes away her innocence as it means she is either involved or is a victim, this making the audience sympathise with her. On the other hand, she wearing red, this is a connotation of danger. It colour mean that she’s in danger or is a warning. This will persuade the audience into watching the film as a result the function of the poster fulfilled to gain an understanding of what happens and solves the enigmas.
At the top there are quotes from newspapers on the film. It says that’s it ‘…terrifying…’. This gives the audience the guessed genre of the film, which can be narrowed down to horror and thriller as the main genre. These quotes also persuade the audience to watch the film as its getting positive opinions on the film
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The objects at the bottom can be represented as a tool for killing as a result the audience will be able to tell that the main plot is focused around a murder or similar.
In conclusion, the film poster has many features that enable the audience to realise aspects of the film just by looking at the poster. Examples are the genre of target audience. It also allows the audience to make judgements and persuaded them to watch the film in order to resolve the resolutions.