Film Poster Drafts and Analysis

For my initial idea for my poster, I took inspiration from the original 'Friday The 13th' film poster. I liked the idea of the simple image of the silhouette of the killer creating dramatic effect, making it the main focus. This made me want to design my poster around this idea. I chose to stick with much the same colour scheme of the red and black in my poster, as I think both colours work well together at creating an eerie tone, whilst still being able to make the association with the horror genre and what the colours connote.

For my first poster draft I played around with the idea of using the silhouette but changing it slightly from the idea of the original 'Friday The 13th' poster. I used the paint bucket on photoshop to fill the image black, but on doing this the colour only went to certain areas. I thought this worked well when I had finished. I decided to put the image in the top left corner, as I feel this was where it worked best, and it allowed me room to put quotes from movie magazines and newspapers to the side of it. I put a plain grey background behind the image, as it contrasts well with the black and the tone of red I used. When choosing the font for 'Obsession' I used a font that looked like blood had been splattered. This helped with conveying the horror genre, as well as helping the audience identify with the way the killer will kill his victim aside from the knife being visible in the image.

When it came to the second draft for my poster I decided to change the tone of grey I used for my background to a darker tone. This helped to create more of a dark tone within the poster, which would then tie into to the tone of my trailer. I also changed the positioning of 'Coming Soon' from above the credits to underneath them, the tagline from 'An obsession that want too far' to 'How far will you go to escape?' and the positioning of it from above 'Obsession' to below 'Obsession' and to the left. I also changed the colour of the writing from red to black so it would stand out more. I decide to change the brackets that were around the quotes to quotation marks.

On my third draft before my final poster I moved the quotes from the left of the image to along the top of the page. This was so it didn't look too crowded and cluttered. But it still left me room to add anything to my final poster.

Timeline before production - Prom Night

Risk Assesment

Shooting Schedule

Allocating Job Roles

Before we constructed our trailer, as a group we had to allocate job roles. This meant that when it came to filming and editing it would mean everyone played an equal part.

Georgia: I was the one to ensure we had all the correct equipment and props each time we filmed. I also knew how to edit our trailer, as I had watched many tutorials by different members of staff.

Ivana: Played a very big role of organising where and what time we would film. As she lives near to where we were filming, and is generally very organised. She also came up with the storyline, and shot by shot scenes.

Ramarna: Played the part of the killer. As she was away on holiday for some of the filming, she played a big part in the editing and contributing her ideas.

Research into similar magazines and posters

Research into similar magazines and posters

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Feminism and The Final Girl theory

A feminist horror film has a strong lead female character. Subsequently going against the typical codes and conventions of a typical horror film, of a promiscuous, blonde female victim who as such is ‘asking to be killed’, and  are normally portrayed inferior in comparison to the male leads, and be shown to need both physical and mental support from them. Further to this, many American horror films show a huge amount of misogyny and violence. However through the film ‘Halloween’ the concept of the final girl by Carol J. Clover was used, this concept shows the final girl being level headed and morally pure.  ‘Halloween’ uses both of these concepts and is therefore considered to be a feminist horror film. The main character is portrayed as strong both physically and mentally due to here escaping near death experiences on many occasions, which therefore classifies her as the final girl.

Freud’s psychological theory is used in this film as voyeurism and sadism is used mainly for the male audiences in order to cause gratification from another person’s pain, as it’s in their nature to be more sexually aroused by watching females in pain. Whereas, the female audiences are more passive and prefer films which consist of a physiological concept as it creates meaning to the film. 

Voyeurism links with Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze theory. As the woman would often fall victim to the ‘Male gaze’, and she believed that as an audience we are encouraged to view the female characters in films in a sexualised manner, as viewers we are meant to identify and sympathise with the protagonist who in the past, tended to be male. Mulvey believed that female characters were coded with ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ where women only appear in provocative manner.