I put together this mood board in order to get a sense of what existing horror film posters look like. From doing this i noticed that a re-occurring theme was that a lot of the posters included the main antagonist/the villain as their main focal point and their only image. This is most likely due to the fact that the horror posters are made with the intentions to scare the audience as much as possible, therefore by putting the 'evil' character on the front, they are able to do that quite easily. This is something for me to think about when creating my film poster.
Another thing i noticed was that the majority of the posters had a colour scheme of black and red, with very low lighting on the images. This again adds to the frightening effect of the posters, due to the fact that the low lighting makes everything seem very unknown, which makes the audience feel slightly nervous/scared. This again, is something i need to put into consideration when doing my movie poster, as i want to create a product which is as similar to existing horror posters as possible.
While a lot of the movie posters are created with photographs as the main image, there are some which are not, and i really like them. For example, the movie poster for Carrie on my moodboard is just a sillhouette of a girl which has been shattered with blood stains covering it. This looks very effective in my opinion and i am contemplating doing something like this as my final product, as it is definitely my backup plan if there is any problems with shooting the photographs etc. I think it would be a good way to test my photoshop skills that i have developed over AS Media.
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