Pre-Production Textual Analysis

          This is an action film poster. It has a close up of the main characters face, whilst she is doing an action. This is what mostly happens in action film posters. They usually have a picture of the main characters, doing something to do with action, in this example she is shooting a bow and arrow. They usually have the title at the bottom and the slogan at the top, and sometimes they have the names of the most famous actors or the main character. Not all of them are the same though, they can have the title of their film anywhere, but the average place is the bottom.They also mostly have the release date if the film or the DVD. They will always have the protagonist and/or other characters in some sort of action shot though, they might be standing in front of an explosion or whatever, but it will mainly be an action shot, which goes you a bit of an insight into what the film will be about.

          This is a horror move poster, of the very popular film Friday the 13th. This is very similar to the acton movie poster. It has a big title at the bottom of the page, with the slogan or actors at the top. This is the same throughout most of the horror movie posters that I have seen. Another thing that the majority of them have is the evil bad creature that will be the death of many people during the film. An example, this film, friday the 13th, has Jason who goes around killing people who go to Crystal Lake. On all the film posters for all the films either he is on them himself, or the iconic image of the film, his hockey mask. So most of the time they do have the creature itself, or an iconic weapon or clothing that they use to portray the film. They are designed to send a chill down the audiences spin just by looking at it, making them want to watch the film... Or run away screaming but mainly to make them watch it.

          Action and Adventure are quite similar in genre, but a film that is more based of adventure tend to have more then just a close up of the main character on the film poster. Like this one the tend to have all the main characters, rather then just one. Again they have the big title of the film at the bottom of page, with the main characters or slogan at the top of the it. This is the tendency with all the adventure posters that I have seen. The also will have some sort of possible action scene gong on in the background, for example, with this poster there is the three main actors at the top of the top of the poster just under their names, then towards the bottom of the page there is a seen of actions, ships being attacked by a gigantic octopus creature.