Ancillary task: final teaser poster and poster

• This is our teaser poster which we have developed through a number of images, we wanted to use a striking image as we found most of the teaser posters rather than posters usually consist of one striking image. We chose the eye looking out of a hidden place as it links in well with our narrative, as the girlfriend is hiding away from the killer. There is a striking light shine in the eye in the poster which was supposed to signify the knife of the killer, suggesting the killer is near to the girl. Over the entire poster we used a yellow tint effect using light, this is a characteristic that you would usually find in a horror poster to connote horror. The font we used was a serif text which also connotes sharp and phallic objects such as the weapons used by the killer, such as knifes. We used the colour red to signify blood and death to the audience which could also be a typical characteristic for the genre of horror.

• This is our original picture for our poster; we were originally going to just use the picture by itself with a blur filter over the top, including logos, information and some reviews. After some audience feedback we decided to add other pictures in, of the other main characters which were going to be faded into the background of this main picture to show the audience the other characters.

• This image was later added to our film poster due to audience feedback we thought it necessary, as a less educated audience weren't always able to gather the main scene was a shower scene inspired by 'Psycho'.
• This image was manipulated to fit in with the genre of our film poster by using the 'lasso tool' to cut out the image, reducing the 'opacity' and finally re-'sizing' and 'rotating' the image to the correct size and position.

• We started off with an original image of the girl stood in the shower and the guy stood behind her with a knife, hinting to the audience that he is about to kill her, this is also a narrative enigma due to the fact that we don’t actually know who the guy is stood behind the girl as through the actual trailer we don't know who the killer is either.

• After some audience feedback we decided that we should incorporate some more images from the film trailer in with the image we already had. We thought it would be a good idea to put all of the six main characters faces, faded into the picture to help establish who they are but also to make the audience question who the killer actually is.
• The main image in the poster is a reference from 'The Dark Knight' film poster as the joker is stood behind a piece of glass with some writing on the glass, in the effect of blood. We had hoped to achieve this. By writing our film title on the glass door to the shower.
• Another reference to our main image is the famous shower scene from 'Psycho' which will help establish the genre to the audience as an audience for horror films are likely to be familiar with the shower scene from 'Psycho'. This image also shows the girls vulnerability.
• We put two reviews in the poster, 'The Sun' we put in because it is a well known newspaper and will be easy for an audience to relate to. The other film review we put is was from 'Fangoria' we chose this because it is related to the genre of horror so we felt it would work well.
• We chose the release date for our film carefully. We decided to choose the next Friday 13th which happens to fall in August of next year. 'Friday 13th' is a well known horror film and people seem to suggest that bad things happen on Friday 13th therefore we felt that this date would be appropriate for a release of a new horror film.
• The iconography within this poster are the hoody as this is used throughout the film trailer by the Ex-boyfriend as well as the killer which suggests that he is the killer and also the knife which is the murder weapon throughout the film from which all the characters are killed therefore it plays an important part in the film and it could signify blood and death.
• We chose a serif font which is a convention of horror and we felt is appropriate for the writing to be red which could also signify blood.
• Our production logo is in the bottom left hand corner of the poster and we linked our logo in with the shower scene as we felt it worked well with our poster and our genre.