Research for conventions

 
These horror film posters have helped give me a lot to think about with my poster and also some ideas for my magazine cover.

They all seem to have one main image and in all but one of them the image is of the killer and the other is of  of the victim.

In the Cherry Tree Lane poster, they use a quiet suburban home (like the one is our film) with the outline of the attacker bareable visible. I like this and would like to use this kind of image for my magazine more than my poster as I feel it would give the readers of the magazine a feel of the brutality of the attacker against the serentity of the victims home.

I also really would like to use the blacked out face used in F; it makes the attacker more unknown and much more easy to fear. It makes the attacker seem demonic even though he is clearly just a youth and that makes him even scarier. It makes the reader think that any youth could do it and it could happen to you. This links to Cohen's folk devils and moral panics theory; this is where he argues that the media find a person or group of people and show them in a way to the public which concentrates a very negative view from them. This view is built on more and more by the media until authority have to act and one way or another it will be solved.

I like the attackers image in I spit on your grave, she looks so menacing and savage but the use of white on her clothes claims a purity and innocence that her age and gender brings but which is totally contrasting with her carrying a bloody knife.

In the Eden Lake poster, I like how the attackers are so emerced in the darkness; it makes it seems like they are creatures of the darkness, like with F, making them more demonic and evil.