Understanding the production of digital photography.

By Luke Woolhead.

Horror film poster.This poster was taken for the sequel of ALIEN called ALIENS.This is a location/set photography as behind the main actor we can see a location from the ,movie which is the xenomorph hive.The picture is a medium long shot as you can see the whole actor stood in the frame. This type of framing would have been chosen as you can see clearly who the main character is and some of the location around her which gives ideas about what the film would be like. The picture has been split into three parts (Rule of thirds.). The top part contains the films title ‘ALIENS’ and the movies slogan of ‘This time its war’ instead of the first films :In space no one can hear you scream” slogan. The second part of the picture contains the main character from the first move Ellen Ripley played by Sigourney weaver. It also shows the character named Newt as well. The third part contains a large group of Xenomorph eggs which have a white glow around them which could mean they are about to open.The focus for the poster is a soft focus with a blue tint which means that people don’t quite know what is going on in the picture. The mise-en-scene used shows action based film due to its predecessor and that the including of multiple alien eggs and its title show that there will be more Xenomorphs present in this film rather than just the one in the first. The text has been ‘anchored’ just above the main actors head, this means that people will pay a bit more attention to this as most films have their titles at the top to make them more visible. It promotes it by showing it will be more action packed and epic than the first with the slogan ‘This time its war’, and the fact the the main character is holding a flame thrower strapped to a gun.It promotes itself to the target audience by including Sigourney weaver in it who, was the main character from the first so it will make people go to watch it and the fact that she is holding a gun will make it seem like on of the action thrillers which were dominate back in the day like terminator. The story the photograph tells is one of action and that this time the human characters aren't messing around and that they are ‘packing’ some serious fire power. The poster will increase sales as, it’s a sequel to alien which has a huge cult following, there are more aliens, there are guns present which mean lots of action and the main character is still in it which will make people want to watch it even more.