Poster Analyses

The Silence of the lambs

The Silence of the lamps is crime thriller about a young named  FBI Clarice Strarring portrayed by Jodie Foster interview the psychopath Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)who is serving a life behind bars after committing various of murders and  more disturbing, cannibalism. The film poster depicts the main character Clarice Starring staring directly into the camera which which may make the viewer feel uncomfortable, as her face has been edited to appear pale, ghost like making the film appear eerie and haunted making it connote death as well as her blue eyes has been edited to a rich copper brown so it could go with colour scheme of yellow, black , orange and white. Making her eyes stand out significantly along with the butterfly which is covering her mouth shows that there is a connection to what ever the character has witnessed she cannot speak of it  as the title of the film 'the silence of the lambs' written in orange standing out from the black background informs that this 'silence' holds a secret, making the audience wonder what it is. Usually a butterfly signify nature, innocence, delicacy and beauty but the audience cannot help but notice a skull patterned on the butterflys back which symbolises what ever the scerte is, it is deadly but what is more frightful, in which the viwer might not acknowlegde very well is that the hallucination of the skull is  in fact naked women positioned to create that shape. The designer adapted that from one of the 1950's  most infamous, most scandalous photograph, 'In voluptas Mors' by Phillippe Halsman and american potrait photography known for his art for being absurd and surreal as the translation to 'In Voluptas Mors' tramslate to 'pleasure to death'. On the top of the film title is the names of the big actors, 'Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins and Scott Glenn' written in white to stand out from the dark background my written in a smaller font with low capitals so it could be noticed after the viewer looks at the film title, this informs  audience who would in the movie and putting major stars at the cover may encourage fans to watch.  

GOOD FELLAS

 

Good Fellas film poster depicts the three main actors playing the 3 detectives and at the bottom of the poster is of a man who is presumably dead as he is posing as if he is dead which informs the audience that it is about murder. The three detectives are placed on top of the city which emphasises their power in society as cops. The main colours is black and white the cop in the middle with his arms crossed staring straight ahead, the red connotes danger