Wednesday 14 September 2011

Denotation & Connotation - Analysing Movie Poster




Genre:Action,Thriller

The three symbolic and technical codes of the genre is violence showed in action and uses of props , as you can see from the movie poster the man is holding a gun.Another symbolic code of this genre is the Dark costumes which represents evil - the dark side of character.The Lighting and colour of the mcvie poster can tell you that that the genre is a thriller as well as strange things in the background of the movie poster.The facial expressions of the woman is scared which also can tell us it's a scary film because it's thriller.A part from thriller which is one of the genres in the movie there is also action.The technical code of gun sounds is a convention of a action genre.On the bottom of the movie poster you can see a man is holding a prop which is a gun , From that you can tell there is action in this movie.Another technical code of this genre is the music as this gives up tension.

The conventions of this genre would be blood as this is a thriller genre but as action as the man in the movie poster is holding a gun which can tell us there will be a little action within the movie.A signifier in this movie poster is the gun in which a man is holding signifier's that the man will go as far as shooting to survive. Another signifier is the woman as from her body language and her facial expressions you can tell she is scared of something within the movie.The man blurred /disfigured on this right of the poster which is in the colour red signifier's that he is a dark character in this film .

This signifies that the characters are trying to escape from the disfigured man as the the woman right next to him has a scared facial expression. One of the denotations of this movie poster is the two at the bottom of the poster is a connotation of love as they are together.Another denotation is the gun the man is holding , this is a connotation of power. And finally the communicating with the audience.From the movie poster you see that they are trying to communicate to the audience that it is a dark film as you can see from the poster the lighting is dark , also the background of the poster is dark which represents that the genre of this movie is a thriller.The name of this movie "wrong turn" communicates to the audience that the characters have made a wrong turn or maybe a mistake which tells us that they are heading for trouble.

2 comments:

  1. Craig, the level of detail is almost there and you are certainly on the right track. Remember to use new paragraphs when needed, don't forget to leave a line space. Please rememeber to add links to other websites, where you can for support. Also to impress the exam boards add as much images/videos etc as you can.

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  2. I will put more detail into the film , i will also put paragraphs in my work and to add links at the bottom such as images.

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