A Comparison of 'The Skeleton Key’ and ‘Dungeons and Dragons’
‘The Skeleton Key’: Horror
‘Dungeons and Dragons’: Fantasy-Adventure-Action
In ‘The Skeleton Key’ poster there is only one actress who is standing
and looking into a key hole (facing the camera). She looks scared but
also anxious and worried with tension. She also looks like she
intensely desires to know what’s behind the Key hole.
The woman is wearing dark clothes and jewelry signifying that this
film is a horror. She is also wearing sandals which represent that
it’s a worm time of the year e.g. summer or spring. The setting looks
like a normal house. This must mean that the scary parts of this film
would probably be mostly in that house since the key hole is there
also.
In this poster the whole background is black. There is also a key-hole
shape on the middle with a woman walking towards it. In the house, it
looks like its day time since there’s light coming through the windows
– this is surprising because this specific gesture code is the
opposite of a horror type of film since usually it is typical for the
nights to be the most scariest and fearful time of day for most
people. The woman is holding a torch and a pole which shows that she
is scared of something that might be behind that key hole and that she
is planning to go inside since she looks so curious.
The tagline of this poster is ‘fearing is believing’ – this is a big
giveaway to the genre. It includes the word ‘fear’ which signifies
that there is going to be something dangerous, scary and that causes
distress. It also makes a lot of sense - if you are scared of
something, it means that you bel...
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...o make people want to see the movie straight away
therefore making the movie successful. People can get interested in
the film because the posters have information about the film that may
be attracting such as the cast – some people go too watch a movie
because of all the good actors that it includes, genre – some people
go to watch particular genres, writer or director – some people might
like a specific writer or director. All of these features are
noticeable to the audience in these 2 posters which means that they
would attract the audience who like horrors, the writer or Kate Hudson
should get attracted to ‘The Skeleton Key’ and those people that are
fans of action, fantasy, adventure, or any of the characters that they
can recognize or see in the credit block should be interested in the
‘Dungeons and Dragons’ movie.
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