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By Georgia St. Louis

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IMAGE

The wedding ring suggeststhat the person is part of afamily.

The grip of his handsimplies that thisperson is masculine

as he seems strongand powerful.

The twisted style of the tiesuggests this idea of inner

turmoil and the destructionof lives. Moreover, denotesthe concept of murderthrough strangulation.

The fact that it is a tieinsinuates that he isout to ruin his family

and destroy or kill hischildrens childhood.

The strong grip suggests he ismanipulative and is thedominant one of the family insinuating that he is thereason for the destruction of

the foundation of their family.

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TYPOGRAPHY

The dripping of the

textalludes how much bloodand danger this film thereis and the mortal brutalityit exhibits.

The red colouring ofthe text connotes theconcepts ofendangerment,insecurity and death

highlighting thepsychological thriller.

The serif font emphasises theclassic and professionallook suggesting that this filmadheres to the typical horroror psychological thrillerconventions.

This tagline proposesthe idea of thepatriarchal society and

the idea of maledominance daddyshome.

Moreover, the fallimplies that there isgoing to be thedestruction ofsomething that isthe foundation oflife as we know it

FAMILY.

Furthermore, the fact thatno actors are shownsuggests that there were nowell known actors within

the film.

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COLOUR

The dark backgroundinsinuates that the personis synonymous with evil

and has recognised andembraced it.

The white writing onthe black background

implies that there issome innocence in thefilm behind this barrierof evil that ismanifested within theman.

The contrast of the redand white of the tieindicates the juxtapositionof danger, murder withvulnerability andinnocence.

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LAYOUT

The fact that there are nocritics included suggeststhat they are asking theaudience to be the

opinion leaders.

Institutional, cast andviewing informationis placed at thebottom in very smallfont suggests that it isan independent

company and so iswell known.

The image is in the centre

of the page making it thefocal point of the poster the text is either at the topor the bottom suggestingthat this picture has moresignificance than the texts.

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NARRATIVE

The tightness and thetwisted style of the tiesuggests that this is

going to be used assome kind of weapon toperform an unnaturalact creating the feel ofthe psychologicalthriller genre innerturmoil.

The ring insinuates thedisruption of a family, thebasis of humanity and thefall of the people in thefamily because of themanipulation of thiscentral protagonist.

The fact that you cant seethe character makes youunable to relate to them

therefore making themwant to go and watch thefilm so they canunderstand the characterand try and associatewith them .

The uncanny feel ofthe unknown personcreates the sense ofnarrative enigma asthere is no hint of thetype of character theprotagonist is.