Film poster analysis

The above image is one of the first posters we looked at before designing/planning out our own poster for our first ancillary task. We annotated all the different parts of the poster such as title, billing block, reviews etc and listed them so we did not miss any out when producing our own poster. Areas of this poster we liked were the black silhouetted figure against the blood red background, the simple bold font and the simple colour scheme of black red and white. This film poster is from a British horror film so it was very useful for us because it is of the same genre as our trailer and appeals to the same target audience, we also like that the killers identity is a mystery and these are both areas that we wanted to takeaway to our ancillary tasks.