Poster research.

A poster is one of the two options I have chosen to do along side my horror trailer so I researched same genre trailers that have posters to get some idea of what mine should look like.

Insidious was made by the same people who made paranormal activity and Saw. From looking at this poster, I can see that the background is quite grey, grainy and cloudy. The fact that we can see clouds tells us that the weather isn't too good which gives us the impression that 'a storm is coming', either with the actual weather or that something dangerous is going to happen in the film which probably will considering its a horror genre. I think this poster works because with the boy being the focal point, it makes you wonder whats wrong with him or what happens to him and the caption underneath the boy reads 'it's not the house that's haunted' so it makes you intrigued as to what is haunted and what trouble its causing.

The film Piranha doesn't come under the same sub-genre as insidious or paranormal activity but its a horror film nonetheless. The piranha's underneath the girl are obviously what the film is about if the title doesn't give it away enough. They are shown swimming with their mouths wide open showing their teeth which indicates to us as the audience that they are going to eat something  or probably someone in the film.
I'm not too sure if this poster works because nothing on it grabs my attention or makes me wonder what will happen because it is obvious.
That's why I've chosen to do a paranormal trailer because it won't be as obvious to people which will make them want to watch it more to find out what will happen.


When researching different posters, I noticed that they all have writing on the bottom. These are institutional details. They tell you who made it, who produced it, who funded it etc.
On my poster, I'll put these because it will make my poster conventional so that it looks like a real trailer. If I didn't put them on, I would risk my poster not looking believable. I also need to think of a slogan to put on my poster because the majority of film posters have slogan's like the two above that I have researched.