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+ Carrie 2013 Immediately we see that the tagline of the film almost has the same font size as the title, the reason for this could be that because Carrie is a well known film/book you don’t really need to express the film title, expressing the tagline immediately makes the audience take in account that Carrie is the only name you’ll be hearing in the film. On the poster you can see blood dripping from the actress’s face, this is effective as it shows that the genre of this movie would be horror. For the audience who’s been watching or reading Carrie for a long time would know that this movie is a supernatural horror genre. With poster conventions there’s not that many as you can play around with your production. However, for official/main posters you include an image of main character, actors, production crew, release date, tagline and the movie title. In this poster the actors names are in a light red so that the audience is aware on who’s part of this movie, also the use of the different font colour prevents any mix up with the tagline, title and the credits.

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+ Carrie 2013Immediately we see that the tagline of the film almost has the same font size as the title, the reason for this could be that because Carrie is a well known film/book you don’t really need to express the film title, expressing the tagline immediately makes the audience take in account that Carrie is the only name you’ll be hearing in the film.On the poster you can see blood dripping from the actress’s face, this is effective as it shows that the genre of this movie would be horror. For the audience who’s been watching or reading Carrie for a long time would know that this movie is a supernatural horror genre.With poster conventions there’s not that many as you can play around with your production. However, for official/main posters you include an image of main character, actors, production crew, release date, tagline and the movie title.

In this poster the actors names are in a light red so that the audience is aware on who’s part of this movie, also the use of the different font colour prevents any mix up with the tagline, title and the credits. The font colour of the actor’s names has to be lighter so that it does not blend in with the blood on the main image.

+ Insidious 2010From this poster we see that the genre is a supernatural horror genre because of the main image. The boy’s eyes looks like one side is being possessed which could suggest that the boy could have two different sides to his character.Also the image has been manipulated by making the image more dark to show the bad side of the movie. You can see that the title of the movie has two different font colours as the ‘si’ is in red and the rest is in white this could be because of the meaning of the word ‘Insidious’. This words means slowly and secretly causing harm therefore the ‘si’ in the beginning of causing harm ‘inside’.This poster also includes mentions of previous movies that the director/producer has done, this shows that they’re well-known for movies that has made a huge hit in supernatural horror movies. This makes the audience of Paranormal Activity and Saw wanting to watch this movie because they will know that production would be suited to their taste of the specific genre.

+ The Conjuring 2013This is a teaser poster because there’s no credits for the production crew and also it does not include any of the actors.The poster is very basic which makes the audience wanting to know more about the movie that would be coming out soon.With the image they played around with the photo as they used the lit up match to make the letter “i” in the movie title. This is effective as you don’t really get many movie posters that uses any of their movie props in their title.At the bottom of the poster above coming soon they included the movie’s tagline “Based on the true case files of the Warrens” they have included this so that the audience knows what the movie would be about and why the producers/editors have included this as it links to the plot of the movie.Compared to the main poster of the movie this image is from on the the scenes from the movie when the woman’s curiosity started to come about and also it is one of the significant scenes of the movie because this is when she realises paranormal things is happening in her house.

+ Paranormal Activity: The Marked OnesThis is another teaser trailer, it does

include some credits. However, you cannot read it as it is really small. It includes the production labels as to which production company is releasing this movie.You can see from this poster it says ‘coming soon’ this makes the audience wanting to know when it would be released especially if they’ve watched all the paranormal activity sequel.

On the top it includes the movie’s tagline, which gives everyone the idea on what the plot of the movie is and also the image has a boy that looks like he has been possessed and he is holding a symbol which could be the coven of the supernatural beings.On side of the image has given a chiaroscuro effect to show the bad side of the boy.

The change in font colour when they mention ‘The marked ones’ shows that this is another sequel and it is effective as it makes the stand out more from the red font, throughout all the paranormal activity posters they have used numbers to indicate which sequel it is but for the last they included a text instead of ‘5’ on its own which tells the audience that this is the last of the paranormal activity movies.