film magazine poster

Font
This is a poster so people will be more focused on the image that the poster is showing so they are using the image of the main characters tattoo which represents the title of the poster. Furthermore the size of the font that is being used is from medium to small so I should take this into account of these conventions and factors when constructing our poster.

Images
The images used on the film poster is big because it needs to attract the audience easily and due to the fact  that it is a post people wouldn't really focus on the text. They would want to see the image on the poster. The image of the tattoo was used as the hermeneutic code in the red dragon trailer so I should do this to link the trailer and the poster together like the way they did here and it makes the poster more intriguing due to the fact that people don't have a full understanding on the tattoo yet.

Colours
The colours being used are red, black and white. The red relates to the title 'red dragon' and the other colours fit well with red so they use it for their poster. In addition black goes with the tattoo so they may be just using these colours because goes well with their movie 'red dragon'. In addition they use three colours rather 5 which helps the poster formulate an organised house style.

Layout
The film poster has an organised house style which helps the aesthetics of the film poster. However there are no credits at the bottom and many posters do have credits maybe this is the way of making a counter hegemony and making the film poster look unique by removing one convention that is predominately used. I should take this into account and do this with our poster. The production logo is at the bottom right corner which should be taken into account and be done on our poster. It's a way of informing the audience that this production company made this film.