MIRRORS
The title Mirrors plays on its subjective title straight away by using a backwards R to reflect the R that comes backwards to the R that becomes before the word. This not only reflects the title and subject of the film, but could also arguably suggest an intertextual link to the classic 1980 horror/ thriller film. 'The shinning' made by the renowned innovative director Stanley Kubrick. This would suggest that the film may have taken some influence from 'the shinning' in its narrative.
The fact that the tittle text it red isn't very suprising as the majority of horror films released use red text for their titles due to the colours connotations of blood, gore and danger.
Sian Elias and Laura Rojas
FONT ANALYSIS
ORPHAN
By looking at the font style you can see that it looks like it may have been written by a child, but also looks like it’s been scrapped or scratched on. I can presume that the film is going to be based upon a child’s life. ‘There’s something wrong with Esther’ could show that there may be something wrong with her and that the film will be deeply concentrated in the problem with her. ‘Can you keep a secret’ is written in red. This could show that this secret may be dangerous. Also, the colour red connotes death which foreshadows that people may die in the film. The colour red also signifies death which is written at the bottom of the poster which says 'Can you keep a secret'.
Sian Elias
28 WEEKS LATER
The poster uses a lot of poweful and daunting words in it's text such as 'warning' 'deadly' and 'quarintine' all written in bold, capitilised font. These are all likely to attract viewers as it is an easy way to reveal some clues to the film's narrative as well as promoting a frightning and serious message which will attract interest easily. The title of the film is '28 Weeks Later' isn't quite as clear as it could be as it isn't the biggest text on the poster and it hasn't been positioned in the most obvious of places within the layout of the poster. However as the poster is a sequel from the successful Horror/Thriller '28 Days Later' it is likely to beeasily recognisable to many as this poster uses the same font, logo and colour scheme as that of the '28 Days Later' poster.
Laura Rojas
We did this font analysis on the following posters so that when we do the our opening sequence, we know what kind of font we want to use and the specific effect we want from the font for our opening titles.
Laura Rojas
OUT OF THE FURNACE
The use of the colour red in the title connotes blood, this signifies death and danger. Also, the use of block writing gives the title a hard appearance, which signifies power and authority. The word ‘Furnace’ is much bigger than the rest of the words, which signifies that there could be an increase in heat. Heat can be linked with tension, therefore this could signify that there will be high levels od tension which links to the film being a thriller. The scratched parts of the font connote the power of the fire (furnace) because something’s tried to face it but it has made little impact as there are only small scratched parts and no big damage has been done, this signifies that it will be a big challenge to defeat the furnace. The sentence ‘ sometimes your battles choose you’ connotes that there is no way out, and that the characters are bought into something that they didn’t want to be a part of and have no choice or control over what happens. The audience can tell that this is a thriller because of the word ‘battle’ which signifies that there will be conflict between two different things, which will lead to fighting and possibly death.
Marija Gustainyte
ORPHAN
The title of the film is written in small white writing, which connotes that the character is innocent and pure. Also, the title is in a small font compared to the titles on other film posters, which signifies that the character is small and vulnerable, so they do not have much power.
The text also appears to be hand-written or scratched, which is similar to how a child would write it, as it is messy and there are capital letters in the middle of the title. This connotes that the orphan character does not have much knowledge, as they have not learnt to write properly and again emphasises their vulnerability. Plus, it signifies that the character may do something wrong or bad due to the fact that they can easily make simple mistakes when writing out a basic word. They did not have a good upbringing or education also.
The word ‘orphan’ also tells the audience that there is a child without their parents as they have passed away. This connotes that they are alone and do not have anyone to protect them. This again emphasises that the child is vulnerable because they do not have support and are defenseless.
Additionally, there is a small text at the bottom of the poster, which states ‘can you keep a secret?’ in red writing. The colour red connotes blood and danger and the text has a hard appearance because it is written in block writing. This is much smaller than the title and is at the bottom of the poster, which signifies that the secret is hard to find.
Amy Miller
TAKEN (2008)
The title of this film is written in bright orange text, this connotes that the characters have to prepare for a big event and get ready because this is the colour of the ‘get ready’ for traffic lights. It is not written in a larger font compared to the other text on the poster that connotes that the person who has been taken is small and cannot find any form of help.
There is a lot of text in grey writing, which blends in with the black background and is difficult to read, this connotes that the daughter is hard to find and that the father will have to pay a lot of attention to find her.
Additionally, the text is quite hard and sharp, which connotes weapons, like knives and the majority of text is in a metallic grey colour, which also signifies weapons.
Amy Miller
This is the dark Knight film poster, there are two different fonts on the poster when excluding the cast/studio listings in tiny grey lettering towards the bottom of the poster which is a pretty much universal size and aesthetic. On this poster there is ‘THE DARK KNIGHT’ written in a white, bold, all capital lettered and relatively small font towards the bottom of the poster. This writing seems like it is fitting for a Thriller poster as it works well in this poster and looks good in context with the rest of the poster; however the usual Thriller poster features larger writing with sharp edges and a bold font. This is often in order to add an element of danger to the poster and often indicates the plot or foreshadows the danger of bold characters and sharp, dangerous objects such as knives and blades in a lot of Thrillers. In terms of practicality often the Thriller poster features a white coloured writing so that is actually visible ahead of the often dark background.
Sian Elias