Megan Sanders

Film Poster:Enclosed

• The title for this film represents the main theme of being “trapped” and “confined” in the asylum. There are a number of different things that are “enclosed” within the mental asylum, such as the young boy played by Sean who cannot escape from the asylum, the mother’s secrets of being raped, and the Head of the Asylum’s secrets which involve keeping Sean locked away in the asylum. I used the font of Trajan Pro as the font reminded me of the film “Shutter” font.

• The main image is a key image within our film trailer as it is the entrance of the asylum. As it is a door knocker it clearly links in with the title of being “Enclosed”. As the image looked plain as just a door knocker, I added red eyes to create a scary effect and put an image of the Head of the Asylum within the door knocker to show him “trapped” behind the door. It also could suggest that he was the one who was keeping everything enclosed in the asylum.

I came up with the idea of including a face within my door knocker from the psychological thriller film poster “The Rite”. In The Rite poster the image of the cross takes up the whole poster, creating a small billing block. I did not want to create this effect, however, and wanted the main image for my poster to be centre as a main focus, rather than taking up the entire poster frame.

• For my tagline I wanted to make it stand out but I wanted the word “secrets “to be the key word within the sentence. I decided to do this by creating it in a blood red colour and putting it into italics. I put it into italics in order to make it seem like it was being whispered in order to enhance the idea of the film holding lots of secrets and inviting the audience to come and uncover these secrets.

• The billing block is conventional as it includes the elements of other film posters, such as “directed by” and “Cuthroat pictures presents”. I kept the billing block small so it would keep the focus on the rest of the poster such as the film title, date and image, but I used actors names as the unique selling point within the billing block.

• I chose October as this was the month that our film was based in. I also decided to put this in a blood red colour as I wanted it to stand out more than the other parts of the billing block which were in white. I also included an age rating and a logo of the production company.

Target audience

• I found my poster would reach my target audience as within the main image is a male of the age 40, which would appeal to that age range. There is also the use of the font which clearly show the film being of the psychological thriller genre, appealing to my target audience who love psychological thrillers and targeting my younger target audience’s ages.

• Based on the image I felt my poster fit in with the real media psychological thriller film poster of “The Rite” as they both focused on a face in the centre of their main image.

• Based on the title, tagline and billing block composition, I felt my poster related to “The Last House On The Left” as the position of these elements of my poster was of similarity to this poster.