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The dark background implies the specific genre of the film. The darkness gives an impression of a mysterious atmosphere. The wooden background tells the audience that they may have to fight with limited recourses. This suggests that it could also relate to the western genre.

The font of the poster is the stereotypical and is a genre signifier as most western films use this font. It resembles to the classic ‘wanted’ signs you find in the Wild West. Also the difference in font size puts emphasis on the title.

The guns are used to signifyViolence and that they areprobably people with power.It shows the masculinity asthe girl does not have oneand the oldest man has thebest gun to show he could bethe most respected.

The use of the actors eye contact is really effective as it also gives the audience a contrast as it creates an impression that they are all fixed on one person and alongside the line punishment comes on way or another, it makes them loothey could all be on one side of the story waiting to serve revenge or justice through punishing someone. I feel that if the front two characters had a bad relationship that the girl and man in background would have their eyes set on the two maincharacters

The actors also are faced indifferent directions, this couldimply that certain charactersrelationships are unstable forexample, the front two actorsgive the impression that theymay be against each other aswell as being main characters..