Assignment 7: Poster Analysis
The post I am doing an analysis of is for the recent mockumentary hit “Paranormal Activity.” I saw this in theaters and thought it was a fairly good horror flick so I thought I’d give the poster a look.
Truth be told, the entire effect of the poster is underwhelming. While its best to go into this film with little knowledge of what happens, the poster alone would not entice me to see this film. While the typography is suggestive of horror and the sort of “homemade” look that the film strives to acheive, the image is too vague in telling me what the movie is about. and does not have very good balance of black-space, typography and imaging.
I can tell the poster was trying to create mystery in what the movie is about, so if I were designing this poster, I probably would’ve left out the image all together and just stuck with text, or downplayed the image as focal point so the viewer is directed more towards the minimal description of the film and reviews rather than the visual content.
