Poster Analysis: Science fiction

As our film is an amalgamation of both the psychological thriller and science fiction genres and as such we would like our poster to reflect this and therefore following our analysis of a psychological thriller poster we must also analyse a science fiction poster. The poster which i have chosen to analyse is the poster for  "The fourth kind"

Film review

Here is the final review for our film Abduction.

Poster analysis: Psychological Thriller

When creating the ancillary texts for our film we felt that in order to create an effective poster for our film we would have to look at other posters within our genre and establish key elements.

Following my analysis of the film "Shutter Island", I felt due to the similarities of our films, looking at how the film was marketed to audiences through the poster and also what the key elements of a psychological thriller poster would be.

Film review analysis

When writing our film review we must first look at how a film review is presented within a newspaper article.

Abduction: Adding filters/colour association

Due to our film taking place primarily within a house the setting did not vary that much, therefore in order to make our film more visually appealing we decided to use filters in some areas of our film, the most notable of which is the "Cast" filter which we mainly used in the first half of "Abduction" in order to mimic the effect of an idle television, however we also made use of the dark filter and other dark colours in association with our protagonist to highlight his deteriorating mental state.

This stands in contrast with the more vibrant colours associated with David's friend in order to represent that he is our protagonist's main hope for over coming his depression, this is most notable in the scene when he asks for the light to be turned on as he is in some ways casting off the dark dreary colours associated with our protagonist and this is further reinforced in the second half of our project when our protagonist now is in a better mental state and therefore the colours associated with him are brighter.