I then decided to create some posters to inspire some ideas for the poster of my film.
I chose an image of a 'scary' looking house as, from my research, I found out that most horror films are located in such settings. The house evokes a sense of fear due to the dark colours used. The weather around the house also could be seen as pathetic fallacy possibly foreboding what is to come. Although my film will be set in a flat, I thought it useful to look at other settings and see how they are portrayed in film posters. I don't like the font used as I think it gives a comic feel to the genre of horror. Although I think it corresponds will with the image and the lightning in the background, I think it has potential to distract the viewer away from fear.
I then looked at possible images I have taken for my poster. I thought an image of the front door with the number 'six' on the front would be effect as, like the image of the eye, it doesn't give too much away but would intrigue the reader and suggest a sense of horror as the number six has connotations to the devil and evil.
When I looked at the original image, I realised it did not provoke a sense of fear at all. Apart from the number six, the door appears to be completely normal and therefore has no elements of horror.
I pasted the image into Paint.net and clicked on 'Adjustments.' From my research, I noticed that the colours mainly used in horror film magazines or posters are usually dark making the image quite unclear.I then adjusted the image's brightness and contrast and therefore created a 'horror' feel.
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