Extension Task: Analysis of Three Film Posters

Shutter Island:
Shutter Island is a 2010 American Psychological Thriller Film




Identity:

This is an audio clip of me talking about the film poster.



Gone Girl

Gone girl is a 2014 is and American psychological thriller.
The title immediately suggests that someone is missing, but doesn’t give away whether that is physically or mentally, or whether it was by force or by choice. The use of alliteration makes it sound pleasing and it leaves you asking questions , so you want to watch the film.
The colours used in this poster are blues, white and pinks. Blue has common links to mental health, but is also a natural colour usually associated with nature because of its links to water and the sky. This could indicate that the woman is mentally unstable and maybe she hasn’t disappeared but she has something wrong with her.
The fact that half the title is hidden by the clouds could also indicate this as it could represent her clouded mind and how she is unable e to remember who she really is, and again this has links to nature.
The main image is of a man, and we are unsure whether he has something to do with her being ‘gone’ or if he is trying to help. The landscape around him indicates he is searching for something he may never find- whether that is the girl or if it is answers we aren’t sure.
If you look really closely, faded in at the back there are a pair of eyes that leave you questioning if they belong to the missing girl, they look frightened which could indicate that she has gone missing.
Running near the bottom, is a strip that looks like something you would see at the bottom of the screen when you’re watching the news- this challenges the mental health point, as it would  stipulate that the girl is really missing as the news always shows you this in order to help bring the person home.
All of this links in to the conventions of a thriller film as it leaves you questioning the information you have and why it may be inaccurate. It also features the colour white, which I have previously identified as a colour commonly associated with thriller movies. This may be because it represents the victims as white has connotations to innocence and purity.