Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Research

This is the film 'The Experiment' I could not find the film poster in English, just the covers on the DVD case, however I wanted to analyse the poster. The Experiment is based upon a true experiment on how people are affected mentally when given power or have it taken away.

This poster follows the main conventions of a film poster, title towards the bottom of the image, names of actors and when its out. There is on this film poster which wasn't on the Obsessed film poster is a slogan. The reason i believe that there is one of this poster but not the other is because Obsessed was a clearer image in delivering the genre and a slogan would of taken away the enigma in the story. However with this image its a little more difficult to understand and the slogan just helps the audience understand the film poster better.

The main focus on this poster is the image, which is why i chose this film poster to analyse. Within in the main image is other smaller images, looking from afar the main image i can see is flames on the bottom left of this chest this connotes to the audience danger and violence and a turbulent film basically. The rest of images that i can see appear to be clips from the film, i can see another man in this chest who appears twice clearly. This connotes the audience that he may be the cause of the turbulence as his is on the chest with the flames which ties the two together and the fact that he appears more than once suggests he is of importance, having all the other images on a blokes chest makes the audience confused as the images appear to have no relevance but all have a connection.

The bars behind the man connote to the audience that they are in a prison of some sort. As i have seen this film i believe that the slogan on this poster would somehow tie the prison theme together as the audience would be too confused without it. By suggesting to the audience that the film is set in a prison it ties in the images on the mans chest as many people associate a prison with violence and anger.

So far the poster seems very angry and violent which could suggest to the audience that the film genre is an action film, but it the top left corner of the poster there is another person with his head slumped down, this connotes that he is upset or given up almost. This all confuses the audience which plays on the genre of psychological thrillers. However the audience may notice the similar tattoo on the two men, around the neck and chest there is a tattoo of a necklace, this therefore connotes that the man is the same person. This therefore shows the audience two sides of this character in front of them, but never lets them see his head, this creates enigma, for someone who has seen the film this is relevant to me as i know that the film is all about the mind and how they change, so therefore this image is trying to suggest that to audience, whether they notice that subconsciously i do no know but i believe that they would notice this and be concerned as to why they can not see his face.

This image of this poster gives me a few ideas on how to create enigma in my own poster. I believe i will still need more research on how other films of this genre create their enigma.

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