the cabin in the wood poster analysis

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

poster analysis

 

 

The genre for this poster is horror. You can tell this by looking at the colours, images and text that they have used. A lot of horror film posters have one main image on them that they want you to focus on. These images are usually 'scary' and are the main focus point of the film. This film is titled, The Cabin in The Woods and has an image of a cabin in the foreground and a faded image of a woods in the background. This doesn't give the storyline away. It's straight to the point. They want you to focus on the cabin and this poster makes that happen.

This poster has a limited amount of colour. The colours being brown, grey, black and white. This is another horror poster convention. Using these dark and plain colours adds fear to the poster. As if colours were used, it would give it a happier feel. Whereas dark colours makes you feel sad. These colours give it an empty feel.

Horror posters commonly have one image on with the title and a tag line. This keeps it simple and makes you focus on one thing. It makes you guess whats going to happen in the movie. The tagline says 'You think you know the story.'

 

This is an eye catching tagline because you're questioning the story. This draws you in to want to see the movie as you want to know what is meant by it. It's short, simple and straight to the point. From looking at this poster i feel that when it comes to designing my poster, we are going to use just one image that will be the focus point of our film. I feel that we should include a tagline as it brings more attention to what the film will be about and draws you in, and is a typical convention used on horror posters. The reason this poster is so effective is because it has stuck to the typical conventions of a horror film poster.I also particularly like the simplicity of this poster and will definitely take this into consideration when making my poster