Evaluation Question 1 part 3

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Poster: How did you go about designing your poster?

 Before I began to create a poster for my short film I first looked at what the codes and conventions of psychological thriller posters are. Whilst looking I found these main features:

• Most posters go with a bleak and dark background that either has highly de-saturated environments or nothing at all
• Most psychological thriller posters also have the main protagonist on the front usually expressing fear, confusion or anger such as ‘Shutter Island’ ‘The number 23’ and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
• Normally there is one object (usually a key element of the film) is only thing saturated in vibrant colour such as ‘After Life’
• The text used on the poster is usually red, white or black, or all three
• The title of the film is usually in a white colour that is in bold letters
• Finally the log lines are usually in a bloody crimson red