Research into similar products poster 01

Today I did my first textual analysis of a movie poster. First I had to find the right posters, as I want something that is similar to the poster I will be making for my ancillary task. I found the poster from a horror French indie. The most important aspect of this poster is the colours used. That’s what really catches the eye of the audience, and in the same way I am planning to use colours in my poster, to really connote the roles of the characters on the poster. 

Textual Analysis Poster-1

The positioning of the characters on this poster suggests duplicity.

There is a symmetry of the two women portraying a light and a dark side,

 hot and cold, opposites but at the same time the same.

Blue often represents calm, frosty, detached and unfeeling. This is the mask for she uses to conceal her red self, which connotes

Red suggests heat . It is a strong colour that summons up a range of seemingly conflicting emotions from passionate love to violence and warfare. Red is Cupid and red is also the Devil.

The woman in red is the same as the woman in blue, except that she is battered and looks damaged.  The connation of this is that the woman in red is the woman in blue, but inside her. Her feelings and emotions, hurt, cut, stitched.  However the woman in red has blue in her eyes, which suggests to the audience that they are part of each other, and that her eyes are part of the mask that hides her inner self.

The faded font suggests to the audience a crumbling wall, perhaps the wall that is her blue self, letting her red self out, as her will weakens, as she loses control over her calm exterior, and her red self creeps out.

Smoke is deadly and so the smoke could connote to the audience that it is indicative of the inevitability of death, and of hell, evil, fire, and brimstone. On the other hand because of the positioning of the smoke in relation to the blue girl, and as blue is the colour of the dead, it could be a spirit, a life force, something being given from the evil side to the good side, reviving her and bringing back some of her life, or giving her some of her evil.