Our film poster analysis

Sadly the writing and smaller images appear blurry in this image, we have tried to prevent this from happening but each time we upload it, it keeps doing it. However on the real image on photoshop it does not do this at all.

Main image: Jake is the main image, dressed all in very dark colours with his hood up and looking away from the camera. As he is dressed in a black hoody and dark grey joggers, these colours have connotations of death, fear, the unknown and black and grey is also known to be the symbol of grief. By portraying emotions in our film poster we immediately linked the poster with the drama side of our genre. The common connotations of grey are pessimism and depression which are two themes that appear in our film. Jake is looking away from the camera as he is ashamed, distraught and is suffering from his brother’s death. This leaves the audience puzzled as to whether he is the protagonist or the antagonist; however it does look more than likely that Jake is some sort of protagonist as he does not have a threatening gaze or any props that suggest he is. Jake does have his fist clenched which is associated with action, a convention of our thriller drama genre. Jake has his hood up in the poster which is Jake’s like trademark as in the trailer when he has his hood up it indicates violence and revenge.

Text: 'Redemption' is placed in the biggest, boldest font which makes the title of the film stand out. The bold font fits well with the thriller genre of our film, the cracked font is quite mysterious, a convention of a thriller genre. At the top we have 'Jamie Widdison' which is the actor's name, this would be a big selling point, especially if the actor is a well known successful actor. We include the tag line 'How far would you go to find redemption?', it is a good convention to use to draw your audience in and to make them ask themselves. Having a rhetorical question also is a good way to link the poster to the narrative, it causes the audience to realise that the film must have something to do with redemption and a quest to find it. We have also used the typical conventions of a poster such as the BBFC 15 and social networking links, this targets our audience quickly and then initiates to them that they can go on facebook/twitter (social network sites that we already know appeal to them) to find out more.