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Poster Analysis: Sinister

This film poster is effective straight away as it has a young girl with blonde hair; which would straight away represent innocence, dragging her hand across a cracked wall with what looks like black paint, which falls down the wall to make an evil face. This straight away shows the genre of the film, being psychological thriller, and shows two of the characters, being the villain and the child. The villain and the child obviously have a connection also in the film plot, shown just from this film poster, as the child is touching and connecting with the villain.
The words "Sinister" stand out also for the audience, as the font is in black and the text in capitals; in order to reach the audience and stand out to them for them to remember.
This film poster has used iconography also, by using its biggest symbol of the film which is the tape at the bottom right of the poster on the floor, showing that it has an importance within the film.
This poster has also been clever by using "From the producers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious", in order to reach that specific target audience that had watched these successful psychological thrillers.
It has also used reviews that boost the film by saying; "genuinely terrifying, this will scare the hell out of you", in order to prove itself to the audience. It has used the key words "terrifying" "scare" and "hell" and put it in a bigger font also, in order to relate to the genre that has been used for this film.
The poster has it's credits at the bottom of the poster like the other posters I have analysed also.

Poster Analysis: The Shining

This is the poster used for the 1980 psychological thriller film: The Shining.

It has a blue tint to the whole background image, and the colour blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness. However, this is then disrupted by the black colour in the photo, which takes up more room than the blue does, showing that there is a disruption of calmness and tranquility within the film. 

There is also a red bold font with "The Shining" written in capitals, making it stand out to the audience and making them remember the name of the film. 

The main character, Jack Nicholson, is also on the poster, showing that he will be a main character in the film. However, as he is the main image in the film, he has a demented and terrifying look upon his face, making us think that he is the villain within the film. The look on his face also represents the film genre without people wondering what it might be. 

The main character also has a cartoonistic effect; representing the idea that what happens to him and what he becomes is unreal, making him seem even more evil. 

Finally, there are the credits under the title, with the main names standing out in capitals.

Poster Analysis: Shutter Island

Poster analysis: Shutter Island from meg2606

New Location:

We found our original location a good location; however it was very difficult to access, as it was far away and hard to get to. We then reserved another place close to us and easily accessible, and today we went there to find out if it would be possible to photograph and film the exterior of the building. However; upon asking for permission, the manager of the building we also spoke to offered us to use the interior also, as the building was hardly in full use and wouldn't mind us using it for our film trailer. The interior was perfect and everything we imagined it would be for the film trailer.

Enclosed: Final Storyboarding

Target Audience for Similar Films To Our Own

The Shining:
- Mainly male
- Mature audience
- Comprehensible to mature language
I felt this film is similar to ours because the location is all set mainly within a big house/mansion, where it seems almost "enclosed" [relation to our chosen film title] as they are stuck within the mansion where all problems are caused. There is also a clear transformation of personality within this film, which is similar to ours.



Mr. Brooks:
- 18 to 30 year olds, because of it's 18 rating with its violent nature
- Predominately male, with its violent nature stereotypically attracting a mainly male audience
- Kevin Costner [Mr. Brooks] being main character, attracting mainly males, but also opportunity to attract female audience, with use of an attractive main character
I felt this film was similar to ours as it is based on a successful businessman who has an alter ego who commits murders, whereas ours has a similar context as it's based on a boy who has been considered as being a victim of "schizophrenia" in an asylum, when he actually does not have this mental illness.

Shutter Island:
- Male and female audience
- Males attracted through heroic and main characters being male, opportunity for males to admire them
- Females attracted through the attractiveness of both main characters, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo
- 18 to 40 year olds
I felt this film was similar to our own because it was based in a mental unit, likewise with ours. It also had an opposite effect within the film to ours, where Teddy Daniels is thought to be a detective, whereas it turns out he is actually a patient within the firm. Our film, goes against this, where our main character of the boy is a patient within the asylum, but it turns out he was actually submitted for the wrong reasons, and does not have any case of schizophrenia.

Target Audience

Gender:
Male and Female.
- Male is attracted through the majority of the characters being male. Some heroistic males also.
- Female is attracted through the maternal love for the son from the mother, as she wanted him to be looked after, although it wasn't successful.

Age:
25-40.
- This age audience would be attracted and targeted because they're most likely to be parents of young children of the son in the film, so they would understand from the mother's point of view. We also thought they would have a more mature mindset for the film, so they could understand the complexity within the film.

Class:
Middle class.
- I think this will be the targeted class as the jobs within the film are middle class, with a head of an asylum which would have a high paid job, and a psychiatrist, who would also have a high paid job, making a middle class audience be able to relate to it more. They will also have a higher disposable income, meaning they're more likely to pay to watch it in a cinema.

Interests:
I think our target audience would have the following interests:
- Big fan of watching films
- Have an interest in mental illnesses
- Enjoy psychological thrillers

Favourite Films:
The Machinist
- Because it contains insanity
The Silence of the Lambs
- Mental illness involved
Black Swan
- Classy film with insane references

The Silence of the Lambs, 1991

Director: Jonathan Demme

Silence of the lambs was a newer classical horror film. It played mind tricks with the viewer, with Anthony Hopkins playing as "Hannibal Lecter". I wanted to watch this film and analyse it as it showed Hannibal Lecter with severe mental problems, and being in an asylum kind of prison. The storyline was brilliant, and his escape from the hospital/prison was thrilling and put a threat on people, which is something that our film trailer and plot would show, with the boy escaping from his cell, becoming a threat.

Jodie Foster, playing Clarice Starling, was also portrayed as a hero, whilst being a controlled and steadfast female, which goes against the stereotypical controlled and heroistic male, attracting a wider audience.

I found the mis-en-scene of the film was intriguing, with Hannibal Lecter wearing an orange jump suit, which gave us a slight incline on an idea of what we could use for our film. He also wore a bite mask which hid his facial identity and expression, making him even more mysterious.

The sounds were eerie also, giving that horror/psychological thriller kind of feeling. The way Hannibal Lecter would murder his victims was also sinister and ominous. 

The film was frightening all the way through, and the code of enigma throughout the film was:

Why is he doing this?

What is wrong with him?

Will he be stopped?

This film was a smart and taut thriller, whilst still creepy and disheartening. I felt this psychological thriller was an intense film, which could be considered as lacking in the psychological thriller genre films nowadays.

Scene That Was Most Significant

This scene stood out the most for me as even though he is behind a cell, he is still creating a fear throughout his speech. He even speaks more than the female detective, showing he is in control. And even though she is the hero within this film, in this clip she is shown to be scared and feared of Hannibal Lecter, as she shows to be fully concentrated on his words and actions, jumping and shifting almost everytime he moved, showing she was being cautious of him. This then would create the viewer to feel that way also, as the viewer would tend to feel the same emotions as the heroistic character. When he tells the detective that he once "ate his liver with some fava beans", this creates the character as a sick and twisted individual who has no limits, representing almost the genre itself.

Sinister, 2012

Director: Rob Zombie

Sinister was a great tribute to psychological thrillers, as I thoroughly enjoyed the film, and was also completely scared by it. I felt it used it's psychological thriller genre to an advantage, as it uses a creepy amtosphere and uses technology to show the mysterious killings from some old tapes,

The tapes were shown brilliantly, scaring any audience that may watch it, as it was very realistic. The non-diegetic soundtrack throughout the film was used greatly, with cracking and women choir voices to enhance the seriousness of the murders and the disturbing scenes. The way the families were murdered in the tapes was also gruesome, and had parts in it where you couldn't look because it was so disturbing.

There was a lot of point of view shots also, making it more creepy for the viewer to watch, as you felt that you were actually in the point of viewee's body, looking outwards, making it extremely uncomfortable.

Overall I found this film a great psychological thriller, and one of the best I've seen in a while. I enjoyed the storyline as it was simple, yet intriguing with its past and secrets.

Scene That Stands Out Most For Me

This scene stands out most for me because throughout the majority of the whole 1 minute 43 seconds clip, it shows an almost normal scene. It is dusk, and a family are sat in their living room watching TV. The only thing that is aberrant and irregular throughout the video is the non-diegetic soundtrack, which has a bizarre soundtrack of a regular rhythm, which makes you feel cautious. However, as the shot is clever with the lawnmower where it carries on for slightly longer than necessary, lowering the viewers dread, it then startles the viewer with a sound of a scream throughout various instruments, creating the evilness within the film.