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8/3/2019 The Stepfather Poster Analysis
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By Georgia St. Louis
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IMAGE
The wedding ring suggeststhat the person is part of afamily.
The grip of his handsimplies that thisperson is masculine
as he seems strongand powerful.
The twisted style of the tiesuggests this idea of inner
turmoil and the destructionof lives. Moreover, denotesthe concept of murderthrough strangulation.
The fact that it is a tieinsinuates that he isout to ruin his family
and destroy or kill hischildrens childhood.
The strong grip suggests he ismanipulative and is thedominant one of the family insinuating that he is thereason for the destruction of
the foundation of their family.
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TYPOGRAPHY
The dripping of the
textalludes how much bloodand danger this film thereis and the mortal brutalityit exhibits.
The red colouring ofthe text connotes theconcepts ofendangerment,insecurity and death
highlighting thepsychological thriller.
The serif font emphasises theclassic and professionallook suggesting that this filmadheres to the typical horroror psychological thrillerconventions.
This tagline proposesthe idea of thepatriarchal society and
the idea of maledominance daddyshome.
Moreover, the fallimplies that there isgoing to be thedestruction ofsomething that isthe foundation oflife as we know it
FAMILY.
Furthermore, the fact thatno actors are shownsuggests that there were nowell known actors within
the film.
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COLOUR
The dark backgroundinsinuates that the personis synonymous with evil
and has recognised andembraced it.
The white writing onthe black background
implies that there issome innocence in thefilm behind this barrierof evil that ismanifested within theman.
The contrast of the redand white of the tieindicates the juxtapositionof danger, murder withvulnerability andinnocence.
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LAYOUT
The fact that there are nocritics included suggeststhat they are asking theaudience to be the
opinion leaders.
Institutional, cast andviewing informationis placed at thebottom in very smallfont suggests that it isan independent
company and so iswell known.
The image is in the centre
of the page making it thefocal point of the poster the text is either at the topor the bottom suggestingthat this picture has moresignificance than the texts.
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NARRATIVE
The tightness and thetwisted style of the tiesuggests that this is
going to be used assome kind of weapon toperform an unnaturalact creating the feel ofthe psychologicalthriller genre innerturmoil.
The ring insinuates thedisruption of a family, thebasis of humanity and thefall of the people in thefamily because of themanipulation of thiscentral protagonist.
The fact that you cant seethe character makes youunable to relate to them
therefore making themwant to go and watch thefilm so they canunderstand the characterand try and associatewith them .
The uncanny feel ofthe unknown personcreates the sense ofnarrative enigma asthere is no hint of thetype of character theprotagonist is.