For our poster, I began sketching a few ideas gained from our horror poster textual analysis knowledge. As slasher horror movie, I made the masthead bloody to suggest it is about killing as slasher horror often involves a sharp object such as a knife or an axe. I wanted to show different aspects of the slasher genre including both the victims and antagonists on the poster.
Poster draft 1:
This is the first design I came up with. As slasher horror contains a sequence of victims being stalked and killed in a graphic manner. The idea of the 'Final girl' lead me to draw a female on the front poster screaming, showing strain and expressions on her face only whilst the background is dark, giving off a sinister feeling. Her face could be shown on one side and contrasted darker on the other side to hide what is going on which makes the audience intrigued of what may be going on.
Poster draft 2:
Expanding on my ideas, I chose to do a design hiding the identity of the antagonist and only show a dark figure outlining the masculine features. I wanted to show the concept of the killer being seemingly a indestructible evil force without showing the full identity. I also have him holding a knife to show that the movie would involve scenes of killing/abduction.
Poster draft 3:
For this design, as we are set in a college/school i thought to draw the antagonist behind a double glazed glass window, capturing the victims. As the students in our trailer are doing a project and is carrying a camera I put 'REC' to show that whilst they are trapped with the camera recording him. Also it shows that the camera is the main prop in the movie therefore the audience will immediatly be informed that it is based on recording and cameras.
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