Hollywood film posters - research

  

This poster has the protagonist (James McAvoy) as the main attraction on the poster but has half of him cut off and the side of his face has a black shadow and he is in black clothing showing the nature of maybe this character has a dark side and the background is white which could be showing his kind side that is quite innocent, and there is cracks all over the poster meaning he has split personalities.

This poster hasn’t got the main protagonist in the poster and just has a cartoon house in the middle of nowhere showing that maybe at night there will be something eerie that’s going to happen as a secluded house is always a setting for a psychological horror/thriller. There is also some rules which attracts audiences to read the poster and lure them in to watching and finding a deeper meaning of those rules. Lastly there is red writing and bloody marks on the poster showing that there will be violence/gore at some point and danger.

This poster uses the star power approach, because they have put both main protagonists on the poster Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis, there is again cracks maybe to show edginess and that there is split personalities, also the whole poster looks like it’s In the shadows and there are bits of light this could show there is a lot of mystery and thinking to be doing in this film.