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The essay strives to present the visual analysis of the poster of the movie Scream. The poster of the movies are regarded as important tool for advertising a movie and they play a very important role in informing people about the basic elements of the movie. The posters are meant to perform variety of goals for the movies and thus it is very important for the filmmakers to assure the creation of appropriate poster for their movie (King, 2003). The poster of this movie has been analyzed in the essay by following the four steps of visual analysis framework.

Have you ever wondered how advertisers come up with trailers or commercials? Or if there is a formula or specific ingredients for which advertisers make their advertisements? I am here to tell you that there is a formula and there are key ingredients to make an effective trailer or commercial. In the world of commerce professional advertisers use rhetorical devices as their ingredients to cook the best trailer that will attract customers to buy many things. The most common forms of rhetorical devices are pathos, ethos, and logos, these devices make a statement more persuasive but what separates a good advertiser from a great one is the way that they use these devices. Advertisers are experts in using these devices in combination; and the only way to know how to combine them is by studying your audience. Video game advertisers have specific ways to persuade their audience to buy a game. Today I will be studying this pattern in a video game trailer of “The Last of us” by Hydrawlik. I will analyze the combination of rhetorical devices that are used in the trailer and evaluate their effectiveness. This video game trailer uses these rhetorical devices effectively to attract the audience’s attention in order to lure customers to buy the product. Rhetorical devices are used for specific reasons for example Pathos is used to incite emotional responses, logos to prove that the game has exactly what the audience wants, ethos to develop a sense of credibility in the advertiser

This is a representation of the coldness of the character that is behind the window, and is blurred within the fog. The use of mise-en-scene is also used in the background that you can see behind the window which is of a forest. This is determined by the clustered trees that are crowded behind the character at the front. This is a cliche in horror films as it is a setting that a lot of horror films use, as a forest is a place that has a creepy atmosphere when dark and is a vulnerable place to be, as it is unrecognizable to you. The use of lighting is used to silhouette the character, this makes her the main focus of attraction. It also blocks out any view of anything else behind them and therefore forcing the viewer to look at the character. This is effective in asserting the audience that this is a horror film.The last use of mise-en-scene that is used in order to make it more bright and to make it stand out is the use of costume. The use of costume isn't fully focused on this poster but it is helpful in finishing off the full image of the atmosphere that it is trying to create. The T-shirt is dirty and torn, which can represent a struggle that it took for the character to come this way.

This poster looks the way it does because it seems to glorify war with many hot colors (red, orange and yellow) and being an exceptional warrior. The people in the background seem to be in pain and dying. There also appear to be rather large explosions in the background. It shows a courageous and powerful woman wearing an armor and having two swords on her both hands. This thing is indicating an incredible woman who have many monsters behind her, and she walks through them. It means that she killed the monsters, overcame her challenges, and destroyed the war to protect the world and maintain the piece. The poster also shows that the movie with a supper woman will be coming soon because the poster has ‘COMING SOON’ is bold and and capital with

Newspapers, Magazines, Television, Online… advertising is everywhere. Within the myriad of advertisements displayed in front of viewers every day, there are appeals. Society neglects and overlooks these marketing strategies that toy with their minds, resulting in skyrocketing purchases after the release of an advertisement. In “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals,” Jib Fowles identifies the appeals he believes are implemented in advertisements. These appeals include sexual innuendos, powerful images, or comforting displays which draw the audience into the desired product. After analyzing the ads within the Vogue January 2018 edition, an extremely popular fashion and lifestyle magazine, the demographics can be determined as a market with expensive taste. The graphics are extremely feminine and contain Fowles’s previously mentioned appeals, like the “need for prominence.” Although not all of the fifteen appeals apply to these advertisements, Fowles’s list is still valid and does not need revisions as the readership of Vogue magazine is just a small sample of the population. Through the appeals of each advertisement, this clear readership is developed, rather than using all of the Fowles’s appeals and not addressing the correct audience.

In today’s market of technology and visual stimulation it becomes more and more important for advertising campaigns to stand out and be innovative, and it is this idea that drove one Canadian beer company to do something that had never been done before. In light of waning interest, Kokanee, owned by the Labatt Brewing Company, enlisted the help of Toronto based Grip advertising agency to (with its entire yearly marketing budget) create something really big for there next campaign. Grip’s innovative response to this challenge was to do something completely new and create an ad in the form of a full-length feature film, which they would call: “The Movie Out Here”

One interesting thing that I noted is that each of these shots has an american flag in the frame. We are then introduced to the main character and soon after we realize that this is a film about the Boston Bombings of 2013. The first half of the trailer does something that no movie poster can do. The pacing gradually picks up speed and gets to the point of multiple fast cuts with loud ambient noise and music, until everything cuts out to black and silent. It gets the audience very focused because you know that something is going to happen. The music chosen for this piece is extremely impactful. It is a slower rendition of “America the Beautiful” played on a string instrument of some kind. It creates this somber yet patriotic feel to the trailer and resembles the Boston bombings perfectly in the sense that it was a terrible day in our history, yet it made us stronger and more unified. This is something special that a simple poster cannot accomplish. The pacing is something that stands out along with the music. This movie isn’t an action thriller but it leaves you on the edge of your seat because of how well the pacing and music line up. It begins slow leaving the viewer at ease but then takes the audience on a roller coaster until it hits the climax (bomb exploding) and the goes back to a slow patriotic mood and calms you down until the end. This is all accomplished from just

It has always intrigued me how many people are very fond of horror movies. Heart racing, and terror acts, make the minds of many excited. I have always wanted to find out the cause to why many think like this, Stephen King, the leading role in the field of modern horror fiction, wrote an article “why we crave horror movies?”  He may have answered many of the unknow questions we have all wondered. He analyzed with an optimistic artful kind of writing skills from a more psychological perspective. He points at the possible reasons why people to want to watch horror movies. Although many think he may over analyze people, he may be onto a psychosocial phenomenon.

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The poster is about the US black and White race relations. Is about the racial tension between Whites and Blacks and the unbalance of power. It shows the tension we have in this country when it comes to the issue of race They are constantly at war with each other as results of power struggle. It also depicts equality as the Black person is seeing in this picture fighting against injustices, oppression and wants equal treatment.

Analyzing the studio system simplistically we see basic capitalism. In the 1920’s movies became more popular, so fulfilling the rules of basic supply and demand, studios were formed to profit from the insatiable public desire to see more films (in

Since the commencement of cinema, posters have been used as a visual explanation for movies, alluding to genre and tone. To catch the eye of their key demographic, specific codes and conventions are often used to indirectly appeal to the targets’ ideologies and preferences. Their clear purpose is to sell the film through aesthetically pleasing visuals, for the most part showing the main characters- however, the way certain individuals are being portrayed is changing incessantly, values are varying, and what sells is being represented, however unethical it may be. This examination into movie posters and their codes and conventions is going to analyse how and why they are used, portrayal over an expansive amount of time, and gender representation.

Filmmakers love an industry exposé: Gasland; Super Size Me; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room; Inside Job; Capitalism: A Love Story. The list of “independent” filmmakers who attack a particular industry — or sometimes all industries — is a long one. But (I ask, exposé-like) are they truly “independent”? They certainly are not ideologically independent. There is a standard point of view for the serious documentarian with a standard list of allowable exposées: capitalism (with bonus points for oil, gas, tobacco, fast food, and banks); the military industrial complex; and anybody who funds (the Koch brothers) or distributes (Fox News) a message which does not hew to the correct ideological line.

Although Flagg’s poster shows his intent through the text, Klinger’s poster is much less straightforward and could be hard to understand if the viewer was not from the same country or culture as Klinger. Unlike Flagg’s traditional color scheme in his poster, Klinger uses complementary colors to enhance the contrast between the red figure eight and the green snakelike figure in the center of the poster. Klinger’s poster also does not rely on its colors to represent its purpose. Instead of relying on the color scheme, Klinger’s poster relies on its figure such as the snake and the number to be the main focus of his piece. The arrows going through the snake give the idea that revenge or anger is toward someone. The top part of the 8 wrapped around the head of the snake also gives the idea of someone being trapped or a very concerning situation. Unlike Flagg’s poster, Klinger’s poster seems to take up much more space but does not have a lot of detail or other figures placed in the background. Klinger’s poster is much more simplistic in the tone of the piece. There is very little, if any, value changes that show the rigidness and seriousness compared to Flagg’s piece. Although Klinger relies on its two dimensional form, the items such as the arrows and the figure eight rely on each other in combination as a whole to depict the message. Much like Flagg’s work, the message or context could be lost if the viewer did not speak the same language or was not from the same country. Klinger’s piece captures both simplicity with its two dimensional style and complexity with its unclear

A-1 Pictures created this poster in order to attract people who are interested in watching genres that are the action-fantasy. To be able to portray the action genre, the background is drawn that displayed some sort of conflict. The background displayed a dead tree, ashes, burning building, and embers flying around. The dead tree signified that the land itself was dying. The burning buildings signify the destruction of humanity. The ashes are covering most of the poster which gives the idea that the land has been burning for a long time. With all the destruction on the background, the main focus of the poster is the picture of two determined and strong looking characters. Since the characters looks determined and strong while there is chaos all around them, the audience can tell that the story will not be focused on the hardships of war but on the fights that happen in battle.