Western
The good, The bad and the ugly
In this Western Film Poster, the title stands in front of the main characters , for each character their stereotypes in the film are dictated in front of them. the title is in a bold black western font with white outlining The words 'good' 'bad' and 'ugly' sit directly in front of each of the main characters therefore corresponding with the character which it relates to. However all the other words are placed between vertically essentially splitting up the major 3 words. The Character portraits are in 4 tones of lemon yellow and black to fill in the deep shadows and overly dark parts of the character portraits, also the protraits are canted to the left , showing it has an unnerving feature to it also in the poster of films its usually have the directors and other known stars listed below. In this poster The Characters Themselves are iconic, with their western conventional looks due to their stereotype displayed in front of them.
Fist full of dollars (1967)
In this landscape western film poster, There is no title, no
cast list, showing that this has a indie feel to it. The film poster has a rustic/ stained paper as base , and a reddish orange border on the inside,this same colour is used on the images on the inside of the border, there is 3 landscape rectangle hand drawn images, the images have slightly different tones to their background colours, also the images seem to be from the same picture only on some parts its zoomed up on to emphasise on the writing below which corresponds to it, On the first image/ cut ( staring from far left) it focuses on the short cigar in the mans mouth, in which the tagline mentions short cigar, The next image/cut (middle) it focuses on the mans hand holding a long gun, in which the tagline mentions this long gun, and in the final image /cut (far right) you see the mans torso which is covered by his poncho, in which the tagline makes reference to this in the tagline. In all 3 tag lines, they follow a very simple structure in which only the specific item in tagline 'This ______ belongs to the man with no name'. This structure is more like a child's first reading book as it is easy to read by first glance. The font of the tagline seems to be in a simple 'times' font and is white, then below the images is what seems to be the main tagline, which is in a bigger font and is in black makes reference to the man in the images and an adventure, which means that this man is the main character relating to this film, he is iconised by the three specific in the other three taglines which makes him different from others in the film. The icon ism in this poster is the 3 items which the tagelines refer to.
Thriller
In this freeze frame the main character (Right) is up in a police officers face, as he is wearing the mask and in the film is the leader of the rebbellion this would be a plain example of the convention of the icon in the film.
In this freeze frame the Main character and another are sitting down and still he's wearing the mask, So from this the main character seems to only care for his revenge and to rebel against the regime in the film.
Inception (2010)
In this poster for Inception it follows another 'Indie' theme with nothing but a title and a set of images relating to the film itself. The background is a simple warm yellow/orange to cold yellow, with what seems to be a maze in a couple darker tones than the background. There are 3 odd specific items which are used in the film that are used to check if the characters are in a dream or reality. This shows that they have big relevance and makes them iconic as people that have seen the film knows who uses them and how they use it to check, so these items therefore are the icons for the characters in which they are used by and icons for the film itself.
Horror
In this film 'The Divide'. In this Horror poster, There are cast names at the top , a tag line in the middle to the left and the the title is below this with all the other information about directors and etc. You can see in the background alot of rubble as it seems to give the effect that something devastated the area. Onset is a woman in a cracked protective suit from this image. Her face looks tired and bruised and she is alone. The tagline says 'to survive the end of the world they must first survive each other' This gives some sort of idea that she is the survivor of the survivors. As a horror, you would expect alot of violence from it and weird things happening and this film these conventions happen.
As a Horror this film has alot of traumatic scenes and images as this is a convention the films characters go through alot of traumatic things which have changed their appearances in the image above is one the characters traumatic changes during the pace of film, as you can see he looks more sick and sinister as the film goes on.
In this scene from the film the character above is having his throat slit with a can lid, and in the scene you can see he is struggling. This death/killing scene itself is a convention horror which happens during the plot of the film.
Friday the 13th (ALL)
In this 3D Horror film poster, there is no cast lists or anything except the title which gives it an indie feel, The layout of the poster is really simple : There is a window in the middle and the main antagonist is smashing through it, All the glass and wood splinters come out the frame making it look much more dramatic the artist has made most of been shown below where the axe is, instead of above where the axe swung from. From this poster you can tell there is going to be a film full of deaths and gory scenes.
This is a screenshot from the oldest version of Friday the 13th, from this mask you can see its the same character that is causing all this horror and misfortune for all the others.
