For my movie poster I took a medium close up shot of John which met the codes and conventions of the horror genre as evidenced by posters such as H2

I designed the mise-en-scene by using low key lighting and dressing my actor in a dark cloak and a candle to signify the genre of the movie.  Similar to the movie poster static which features a cloaked figure and also similar to a variety of other posters which include props of some sort such as: the Child’s Play 2 poster.

 The colours which I selected were mainly green and black.  The connotations of these are darkness, decay and insanity in order that the audience could clearly read the poster as belonging to the horror genre.  Other examples of movies which use these colours are the likes of “the fly” and “alien” (which is a sub genre of horror and sci-fi.

 I made sure that the movie poster met industry conventions by including a billing block which every movie poster needs.  The classification clearly shows that this is a movie for a more mature adult audience and clearly isn’t aimed at young children.

For this task I learnt how to use Photoshop in order to convey representations.  Some of the techniques I used were mise en scene related such as the use of low key lighting in order to convey an eerie look and keep parallel to other horror movie posters by sticking to the common codes and conventions of the genre.

 In my opinion, the most successful aspect of my poster is my use of picture. This is because the actual picture is a pivotal part of showing what type of genre/film this is. Also this is where the target audience mainly focuses on and you can clearly tell that this is a horror movie poster.