Poster Analysis - Tormented

This poster is unusual compared to others, as it is presented landscape. The title is still in the Golden Section, as is the tag line "A New Class of Terror." This also shows the audience that the setting for the film is in a school, and most of the characters will be of school age. The main colour scheme of the poster is black, showing that the genre of the film is going to be quite ominous. "Tormented" is written in red, to mkae it stand out, and to lead the audience to believe there is going to be blood in the film. The only other writing in red on the poster is the year that the film is released, suggesting that the makers thought that this is as important as the title. The seemingly dead bodies lying around adds to the idea that there will be blood. The main character is in the middle of the poster, and he doesn't stand out very much. He is only visibly different because he is clearly alive, he has his shirt off and he is looking directly at the camera. The position of the dead bodies around him suggest that he might be the cause of them. They are positioned randomly, suggesting that the deaths are all different. All the characters are in school uniform, suggesting that they all know each other, and that there is a common reason for their deaths.

Tormented

Although our storyline is similar to that of Tormented, we are making sure that the storylines differ. This is the theatrical trailer for Tormented (there isn't a teaser trailer):



As you can see, there is not a lot of emphasis on the deaths. This is how our teaser trailer is going to differ. We intend to have lots of fast-paced editing between the deaths (not showing too much gore) to show the main purpose of the film. We only hope to show a little narrative, so that the whole story isn't given away, and to make the audience want to go and see the film.

Thriller murders

Deaths in thrillers are most commonly murder or suicide. By looking into different locations of stereotypical death scenes we can decide where to locate the scenes for which our death scenes will be. Murder scenes are most common in the shower or bathroom almost making this a stereotypical location for a death in films such a Psycho:

Death in a car is also a stereotypical location in films such as Tormented and Texas Chainsaw Massacre:

Another stereotypical location for a death is from tall buildings/heights from which someone could be killed in films such as The Grudge and The Number 23: