Analyzing Movie Posters - 1475 Words

Devin Morgan 9/13/11 Movie posters are meant to capture the audience’s interest and reel them into going to the movie they are each individually presenting. Some posters do their job in catching the audience’s attention and some just don’t create any interest. Whether it creates interest from the audience or not mainly depends upon the visual aspects of it. These aspects include alignment, repetition, contrast, balance, direction, color, and font. Other aspects that most posters try to achieve that aren’t necessarily visual are appealing to the audience, showing the purpose, and staying on the right side of ethics. Also most of all movie posters contain the aspects of ethos, pathos, and logos. To correctly analyze a poster you have†¦show more content†¦Also from the characters looks and age, it makes you guess that there is a relationship that will go on between the two them during the movie. Movies seem to always try and create a love story in order to get the inter est of both men and women. The target age of appeal for this movie is the modern generation but that doesn’t mean it is solely focused on appealing to that age group. In this case, this movie is a sequel. The title Legacy underneath the main title Tron makes you guess from just looking at the poster that is a sequel. When researched you will find that is based off the movie Tron that was made in 1982. So in this case it is mainly appealing to the modern age, but you can also argue that it has an older target audience because older people were the ones that saw the original movie almost thirty years before. Another major thing you look at when analyzing a poster is its ethos, pathos, and logos. This poster does a good job of appealing to all of these. Its ethos or in other words its credibility is shown in the fine print at the bottom and right above the main title. 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