In class we look at many posters of different films and worked out the connatations by looking at the front cover of them. One of the films which we looked at was The Shining, and we looked at this poster;
We could tell straight away that this was a horror film, firstly by the fact that the man had an axe in his hand which was going through the wall, trying to get the woman. The way the womans mouth was open showed us that she was terrified and shocked, and was a contrast to the derranged look in the eyes of the man, and the crazed smile on his face, suggesting that he has gone insane. The fact he is sweating profusley suggests that maybe he has been chasing her around for a long time and the way he is looking towards her shows he is trying to get her with the axe which he has shoved through the wall. The woman is trying to get as close into the wall as possible, suggesting that she is scared, and she is holding a knife which would be for protection. The woman is also surrounded by white, which symbolysis innocnece, and the man is syrrounded by dark which is asscoicated with evil. The knife that the woman is holding in her hand would normally be associated with violence, but in contrast to the axe which the man is trying to get through the wall it is obvious that she is holding it as a weapon of defence, and is probably too scared to use it.
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