The title of my media project (Horror film movie poster) is called ‘EXIT’.
In the photograph taken you can see the protagonist (Naomi played by Kim Kardashian) fingers covered in blood, reaching for the drain which obviously she cannot fit into and thus, cannot make her ‘exit’ from her unfortunate situation.
The drain in the picture is the main signifier of the title ‘EXIT’. To also give a dark and eerie feel to the drain because it is the main signifier of the title, using Photoshop (the burn tool) I decided to darken the holes and the paces in between the plaques of wood to Give a dried up feeling as the skull in the photograph, also Naomi’s fingers to signify suffering and excruciating pain.
To have additional vivid imagery the leaf that is dried up (on top of the drain) is supposed to signify death as when a body is without life the flesh decays and dries away. You can also see the juxtaposition between the ‘life’ in Naomi’s hands (even though they are dying up).
With the text type I used for the title ‘EXIT’, I chose green as most exit signs are bright as they draw attention just as I intended too with my potential viwers, draw their attention just as I intended to do my potential viewers.Aslo in terms of what the title depicts, exit signs always lead the way out but in this case a sort of irony is created as the victims cant get out of their pre-set death traps. Also there is juxtaposition between the leaf and the colours of the tile ‘EXIT’ as leafs are meant to be a rich green colour, bright and look healthy but in this photograph it is the total opposite as the leaf has dried up and is dark, just like the stereotypical font colours of horror movies.
And to the more obvious, considering semiotics, the skull and blood are all in association or are signifier of death which is the main theme of the poster. Also in association with the themes the darkness can be represented by the darker side of the poster (top left) which is one of the ‘hot spots’ to draw attention to the themes of darkness. Also the key signifier (skull) has been darkened around the eyes and the teeth/mouth area which are the human features on a face that show the most emotions to create vivid effect to the theme of darkness and also evil emotions and death.
In my poster I tried to also use obvious iconic signs (signs which actually look like what they represent) such as the title ‘EXIT’ which is meant to look like an exit sign and in addition Indexical signs (which have a connection to what they represent) such as the blood which sort of resemble veins that represent strains or uncomfortable force acting on the hands/arms.
In the photograph taken you can see the protagonist (Naomi played by Kim Kardashian) fingers covered in blood, reaching for the drain which obviously she cannot fit into and thus, cannot make her ‘exit’ from her unfortunate situation.
The drain in the picture is the main signifier of the title ‘EXIT’. To also give a dark and eerie feel to the drain because it is the main signifier of the title, using Photoshop (the burn tool) I decided to darken the holes and the paces in between the plaques of wood to Give a dried up feeling as the skull in the photograph, also Naomi’s fingers to signify suffering and excruciating pain.
To have additional vivid imagery the leaf that is dried up (on top of the drain) is supposed to signify death as when a body is without life the flesh decays and dries away. You can also see the juxtaposition between the ‘life’ in Naomi’s hands (even though they are dying up).
With the text type I used for the title ‘EXIT’, I chose green as most exit signs are bright as they draw attention just as I intended too with my potential viwers, draw their attention just as I intended to do my potential viewers.Aslo in terms of what the title depicts, exit signs always lead the way out but in this case a sort of irony is created as the victims cant get out of their pre-set death traps. Also there is juxtaposition between the leaf and the colours of the tile ‘EXIT’ as leafs are meant to be a rich green colour, bright and look healthy but in this photograph it is the total opposite as the leaf has dried up and is dark, just like the stereotypical font colours of horror movies.
And to the more obvious, considering semiotics, the skull and blood are all in association or are signifier of death which is the main theme of the poster. Also in association with the themes the darkness can be represented by the darker side of the poster (top left) which is one of the ‘hot spots’ to draw attention to the themes of darkness. Also the key signifier (skull) has been darkened around the eyes and the teeth/mouth area which are the human features on a face that show the most emotions to create vivid effect to the theme of darkness and also evil emotions and death.
In my poster I tried to also use obvious iconic signs (signs which actually look like what they represent) such as the title ‘EXIT’ which is meant to look like an exit sign and in addition Indexical signs (which have a connection to what they represent) such as the blood which sort of resemble veins that represent strains or uncomfortable force acting on the hands/arms.
Also the shot types of the pictures was a close up of the skull was to ‘stare death in the face’ as that is what the picture of the skull depicts .This shot is normally used to show close emotion in the face and I tried to give the view an insight to what staring at death would feel like (literally), by using visual content.
In addition to creating imagery to vivid effect, I positioned the title at the bottom for 3 reasons:-
1) It is positioned at a ‘Hot Spot’ to grab attention.
2) Because I intended to allow the viewers imaginations ‘run wild’ right before they saw what the movie was all about to sort of captivate their thoughts and make them eventually want to see more.
3) Lastly, because a typical ‘EXIT’ sign is always the last thing you see before you leave a place, and I wanted them to feel the same way as their imagination left that piece of art/media (the photograph).
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