Ancillary task reaserch

For research for my ancillary task I decided to look at exisiting horror trailer posters to get some ideas and also to look at some of the conventions that these films use to appeal to there target audience.

Horror posters tend to have a very simplistic look. In this example its just an image of a blond woman in distress covering her mouth. The title of the movie is near the bottom  and also contains the names of the actors in the movie. Its simple and effective but most importantly it helps to catch the eye of its audience.

The next image of from the movie "Hannibal"  which is another example where  they use the close up of the villian, whilst adding clever little effects like making Hannibals eyes red. This is a very clever effect because they have matched the red eye with the red wirting of the title of the movie, which a good way of using colours.