Valhalla Rising's Poster

 

 The Film Valhalla Rising is about a viking warriors, with one eye, who was unimaginably called one-eye. One-eye according to the rumours is from hell it's self, one eye possesses to ability to see in to the future, even predicting his own death.

The main character is present in the centre of the artifact, showing him with war paint and runes painted on to his body, with a choker on his neck. This as long with the pose of the character is unnerving, giving the character an eairy persona. Since he is the only character in shot, it is safe to assume that he is the main character of the film.

The back ground being large misty mountains along with the viking like runes on the main characters body sets the anchorage as set in medieval times, with no man made structures in site it is likely set in a remote location.

The Blood red font denotes violence and blood shed. As side from the red font the colours are mainly dark and foreboding, hinting at this will be quiet a dark film with little lighting in it. It also sets the mood for quite a dark depressing although enjoyable film.

The light fades out towards to the bottom, this makes the production notes stick out more, due to the red on black, but it could also indicate darkness and binary oppositions.

The reviews and the rewards that it's won can be a indication of that it's a good film and more of an incentive to watch it, the films the director has previously directed are also on display, as fans of those movies may also be encouraged to watch this movie.

Devil's Advocate Poster.

Devil's Advocate is a American horror film, starting Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. In which Reeves plays up and coming lawyer who is aided by the Devil, played by Pacino.

The back ground of red fires swirling is synonymous with the Christian description of Hell, as a fiery waste land.

Pacino's character is standing over Reeve's character showing that he is at a higher status than Reeve. He also  has his arms around Reeves to show that he's pulling the strings so to speak.

Both characters are giving the gaze which immediately connects with the viewers of the posters.

Pacino and Reeves' are both wearing suits in the poster, this shows authority and power. 

The poster has kept to a singular colour scheme with the main colours being red and white, which the only things that are white is the text and the main characters them selves, the poster is also heavily centralised, showing nothing towards the sides.

The Font is also quite gothic which again ties in with the Christian view of Hell and the Devil.

Directors

My favorite directors are George Lucas (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) John Carpenter (Big Trouble in little China, Escape from New York) and Quintin Tarintino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs) What I admire about these three directors is that as well as directing their own films, they also right the scrips and the plot line, which gives them a clearer vision of what they want their own films to look like.

With me and my partner both writing and directing our trailer, it has given us a clearing view on what we want the final product to be.

Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers is a British horror cult film, the basic story line of the film, is a group of a soldiers who are on a training mission, suddenly find themselves surrounded and out numbered by a group of werewolves.

I choose to research this film, because much like our film, it's set in a forest, with the trailer not full showing but heavily implying who or what's attacking the soldiers. I enjoyed the film a great deal, because of the great characters and the great sense of comic timing and the comic relief in the film.

The blue and black tones, can denote authority, which since the film revolves around the army, peoples places in the army and their relastionships along with a civilian who is also surrounded by the werewolfes.

In the shadow of the man there is a clearly a image that looks like a wolf man of sorts, along with the title dog soldiers and the tag line "Six Men. Full Moon. No Chance" it is fairly safe to say that the film is about werewolfs. Particually when the review at the top makes a pun on the word bitch, which confirmes that it's a werewolf movie. It could also be considered that having a review at the top could be unorthadox. The wolf like shadow takes up more room and is a great deal more over whelming with a sense of mystery. This show the binary oppostion between the shadow like wolf and the smaller army man is clear.

The anchorage for the film is that it is clearly set in a forest, or that at least a part of the film is set in the forest.

The font used is very cracked up and distored this makes the poster look gritty and some what surreal. The slashes turn the font in to a logo of sorts that would be easily reconisable. The tagline and the website are both in yellow, they are the only bit's of yellow in the entire poster, making they both stand out and grab attention.