Horror trailer genre analysis

The second trailer I am going to be analysing the genre for is Annabelle

-Fades to black
-Creepy sinister music
-Impact sound
-Pace of music slows down as pace of editing slows down
-Pace of music speeds up as pace of editing speeds up
-Shadows under title of the film, in the shapes of coffins
-Font of title hints the horror genre to the audience
-Name of film comes out of a wall which is quite sinister
-Images of blood and dolls are shown throughout trailer, which adds the effect of fear
-Low-key lighting is used at the start, this creates an anxious atmosphere
-Quick changes of camera angles and cuts in between scenes
-Tagline mentioning other horror films; the conjuring
-The music works contrapuntally in the middle of the trailer
-Release date is October, which is around Halloween time
-Doll music is contrapuntal music
-Whole idea of trailer is contrapuntal as it is about a doll which symbolises, children, sweetness and innocence

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Poster analysis introduction

I am going to conduct research and analysis towards the conventions of film posters. I have looked at five different posters from a variety of genres, in order to see if there are similarities within the conventions. This will help my understanding of the depth in film posters, thus benefitting me when I am making my own. Below are the five posters, each of different genres, which I chose to analyse the conventions of: 1) La La Land 2) Spider Man 3) Insidious 2 4) Hangover 2 5) The Notebook

SFX front cover analysis

This is one of the front covers from SFX magazine. SFX is a British magazine, which covers topics in the genres of popular science fictions, fantasy and horror, in different types of medias such as films, video games, comics and literature. The magazine was founded in 1995 and gets published every 4 weeks for Future PLC. The genre of the magazine can be told immediately by the 3D, silver masthead in bold. This futuristic tone has also been accompanied by a visionary dominant central image. The cover lines mention films; 'Dawn of the Apes' as well as tv shows such as 'Walking Dead', 'Super Natural' and 'Doctor Who'. All of these productions fit in with the Sci-fi genre, which SFX promotes.

Poster analysis 1

The first film poster I am going to be analysing is La La Land as has been classified as the musical genre. The poster conventions I found for this film were smaller images, reviews, reference to awards, film title, name of stars and star ratings. I suspect the rest of the posters I analyse to include the same conventions, despite the differing genres.

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