THE DARK KNIGHT

Magazine front cover

Angles: Close ups of the hero and the villains face.

Layout: It has a left hand third, there are some plugs at the bottom of the page, the masthead is at the top of the page on top of the image and the barcode is in the bottom corner

Tagline: “Batman vs The Joker – Summer just got serious”

Font: It is comic book style.

Poster

Angles: Low angle of batman Layout: It has a tagline at the top of the

poster then the main part of the image, then the main characters in the film, then the name of the film with the logo behind it and in smaller writing at the bottom there is the date in bold.

Tagline: “Welcome to a world without rules”

Magazine and Poster There are two different magazine front covers for this film. One is

of Batman on this the front cover they have used the colour blue around all the writing and for the writing itself. They have used the colour blue because that colour is associated with batman, they also use this colour around the logo of batman on the film poster.

On the other front cover they have the Joker which is the villain. For this front cover they have chosen to use the colour green in the same places for the Batman cover. They chose this colour because this colour is associated with the joker so fans of the film would recognise what film the front cover is from.

For the poster, they have used batman and have also used the same colour of blue to make sure people relate this colour with the Batman film.

All 3 of these promote the film and people know they are all from the same film because they use similar devices such as logos and the same house styles.

Poster: the poster makes you want to watch the film because it looks mysterious and makes you want to know who the dark knight is.

Front covers: both magazine front covers makes you want to go see the film but I think the Joker one would make a reader want to go see the film more because they don’t know who this villain and what he is capable of doing which makes it more mysterious.

Looking at these front covers and the posters it has helped me with choosing camera shots to use and I will make sure I link my house style with the front cover, poster and trailer to make sure my audience know that they are all linked.

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ5U8suTUw0&feature=player_embedded

Trailer Shot types: Zoom, pan shot, aerial shots, crane shots, over

the shoulder, mid shot and close ups. Sound: Score – Tension building music, Voices over's, non

diegetic of the Joker laughing, this make you feel uncomfortable because it is the Jokers laugh. Diegetic sound of explosions are use these are typical sounds used for an action film.

Colour: Dark blue, hint of green lighting, gold is used to show an expensive restaurant.

Storyline: Starts off with the hero (Batman) standing on the top of a building looking over his city, then it cuts to the villain saying how he wants to kill batman. Within the story there is a love story between batman and another women, and the villain gets in the way of this.

Transitions: lots of fade to blacks, this makes this trailer tense and puts the watcher on edge which makes them want to watch more. They also use some short takes and long takes.

The trailer goes in chronological order. In this trailer it shows the main character

and actors, they do this because the people that are watching the trailer may of seen them before in different film and like them which would make them want to see if they are as good in this film. They also show the villain saying that he wants to kill batman, this makes people want to see if the Joker will succeed. It also show a love story between batman and a woman, this would make people want see the film to see what will happen between them.