Red dragon Poster Analysis

Red Dragon is a psychological thriller film that focuses on the character of Hannibal Lector. This poster also reveals that there is a horror element to the film,as it seems quite dark and foreboding. The main feature of the poster is the tattooed back. This gives the audience a feeling of unease. The iconography of the tattoo show that the man could be dangerous, as the horns could symbolize a number of evil things such as Satan and as he title shows, a dragon. The tagline of "Before the silence" is reference to the Silence of the Lambs, which also featured Hannibal Lector. This shows the audience that there are going to be some common themes int this film, and that if the audience enjoyed the Silence  then they may well enjoy this film too. The titles them selves are once again bold, capitalized and the colours of red and white. The colour choice, however is more relevant here, as the red of Red Dragon is colour coordinated appropriately. There appears to be a man in the center of the poster surrounded by a glowing light. This could signify that the character is a good guy, or that it symbolizes goodness that counters that of the main antagonist. 

Batman Begins Poster Analysis

Batman Begins' poster shows many conventions of a darker action film. The dark gloomy sky shows that this film is departing from the fairly cheesy conventions of other superhero movies, and the setting of the buildings in the background show that this film will be grounded much more in reality. Batman takes precedence in the film poster here, and the fact he is coated in bats, plus the fact that he is almost completely black in colour draws a distinct contrast to the low sun in the back ground, creating a sort of smoggy city. The titles are fairly simplistic, as to not draw attention away from the dark knight himself. The bold white capitals are once again found here, and this again contrasts with the darker colours seen on the poster. The bat symbol above the title is a throw back from the Tim Burton Batman films, which were fairly similar to Christopher Nolan's films, and he symbol verifies that this is indeed going to be a decent Batman film and that the audience should forget about the two previous Batman films that came before it.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

The film poster here is a step a way from most film posters of this genre. Its main feature is that of Tom Cruise's face. He is hooded maybe to show that he is being incognito, as is fairly common is spy and secret agent type of films. His face is also coated in numbers and lettering. This seems to relate to codes and ciphers that are often portrayed in these kinds of films, with various objectives being created due to hidden messages and the like. There is only a small explosion, which seems to actually be a fuse of sorts. This indicates that there is a time limit to whatever needs to be accomplished, such as a bomb or other device that causes a detonation. The title of the film is fairly small compared to others of this genre, but it does follow the conventions of other posters. This includes the fact that they chose to capitalize everything and chose to use red and white as their font colour. This draws the eye of the viewer, as this stands out well as it is on a background of quite dark colours.

Cast and Crew

Connor Wright- Protagonist, Editor, Music
Joshua Hodges- Camera man, detective and Empire front cover creator.

Bond Through the Ages- Poster Analysis

 The poster for Skyfall is minimalistic in its approach, showing only three main focal points of the film, which are the british car, James Bond and Westminster. This is to not draw attention to the fact that each element of this poster is vital to the plot. James Bond the protagonist, the car possibly representing Britishness and Westminster as the centre of government, as well as being a very British symbol as well.

The colouring is reminiscent of stormy weather, and as such, is often part of a film, with the phrase (A storm is coming) being thrown around a variety of films and t.v. programmes, something that this poster could be trying to replicate without explicitly saying it.

The title is fairly small as well to not distract the audience away from the focal points of the poster. However, the 007 embelem is the only coloured part of the poster, symbolising that the 007 logo is a stand out part of the franchise, and that its effect is greater on the industry than other franchises.

The poster for Goldeneye is a fairly busy looking one. James Bond is in the foreground with a pistol, emphasising his importance and once again playing on the tagline of "Licence to kill" that has been established across the entire James Bond franchise. The two women behind him are the trademarked "Bond Girls" and the stern looks whilst infront of what appear to be electronic maps of various countries, show that they may be not only instrumental to the plot, but may also play some kind of femme fatale role.

The explosion with various military vehicles behind the smaller figure of Sean Beans character (whose name I have forgotten) indicates that, whilst not being the primary character in the story, show him as being important none the less, and that the story may be based around him and the destruction as shown by the explosion. The explosion also partially consumes the 007 embelem, once again heralding back to the licence to kill line once more, and therefore reminding the  audience that the character has not changed, and remains popular due to him being a likeable, if static character.

The title is in gold and all capitalised, but still plays less of a role than the007. It is still fairly noticeable, but the effect on the audience would be that they would notice it just enough for them to make a correlation between the title and the tagline which is no limits, no fear, no substitute, which refers to the danger as presented by the explosion, with the fearlessness of the title character.

 

 

 

Font Research

The fonts I have chosen as possible types of font for the trailer are all form action films. This suits the overall tone of the trailer, as it too has several action heavy segements throughout, but it also shares some similarities with crime thrillers which was why I chose the third one down as a possible font to represent this. Overall I believe that the one that suits the trailer the best is the top one. This comes from the Tim Burton set of Batman films, which shares several similarities with the ideas that are in the trailer that I have chosen to make.

Magazine front cover analysis 1

The magazine front cover of Empire magazine tends to showcase one major film of the year. In this case The Dark Knight was being either previewed or reviewed as The Joker is the central point of the cover. The text next to him is in a variety of fonts, in order to purvey the attitude of the character, which is very chaotic and the white text below stands out due to the colour, and the fact that it looks as if it had been scratched in by somebody. It also features other film previews and reviews at the side, so not to take the attention away from the headline article, whilst also ensuring that a potential buyer knows what else is being reviewed, previewed and the like.