For our poster we wanted to portray what our films mainly about. To do this we used we wanted use both Oskar and Bronte as the subjects so that it is instantly linked and recognised with our trailer. The plot of our trailer is that Bronte is the final girl so we wanted to convey this by merging together both Oskar and Bronte and making it seem as if Bronte is trapped inside him. This connects with our trailer as we don’t see Bronte escape from Oskar and will make the audience want to see if she does eventually run away. Giving this merging effect helps clarify what our trailer is about and can also suggest that two worlds are interfacing and gives an underlying fear to our audience. Using bright colours in the poster gives the modern edgy look on horror which links into the highly contrasted effects we used in our trailer. Using these bright colours rather than the dark levels of light normally featured in horror posters reverses the normal horror conventions and is what I believe makes our horror product stand out. It also makes the subjects and the trailer seem quite creepy and dangerous as we are not conforming to the rules of horror.

With our magazine we wanted it to be powerful but quite simple and not too overwhelming. This way through the magazine we can show the simple ways we have created horror through our trailer, for example the minimal use of weapons, blood and killing scenes and also show our most adventurous scenes through our poster. Both aspects have in turn still created horror. In our magazine we wanted to feature one subject and we chose to use Bronte. We chose Bronte instead of Oskar as in our trailer Oskar is featured in many of the shots, as said before I believe that this is a positive aspect for our trailer. So, this is why we didn’t want Oskar to be featured in the magazine as we didn’t want to eliminate the realism of his character and feature his face on a film magazine which would reinforce the fact that he is just an actor. We wanted to show a lot of the villain, Oskar, through real time footage to incorporate a realistic outlook on the issue and having him exposed on the magazine as well as the poster may take away this authenticity. We again wanted to present the emotion of entrapment through Bronte as we merged an image of her positioned to be going crazy over her and a second image of her kneeling down with a belt tied over her mouth. This image shows the fear that is also conveyed in the horror trailer of Bronte trying to run away from and being dragged away by Oskar. The emotion used in the poster is what brings out the aspects of fear and terror of the trailer. This shows the simple ways we created horror in our trailer as most of the suspense and terror is shown through emotion and this is also shown through the delicacy of the belt. These disturbing approaches to horror in our images are all powered on the way direction has been given and the way they have then been presented. Rather than using gallons of blood and wound marks to bring fear and this forms from the basis of our trailer. We wanted to show Bronte again trying to break free. I believe this and the ‘merging of images’ theme is what has branded our film from the magazine and poster.