Film Poster Review

Film poster review

The film title “The Resin” is very prominent at the top of the poster. The word “resin” on its own doesn't really have much meaning to it, but when seen with the main image you get the idea it has something to do with the dead. The tittle could give the audience the idea that there is some sort of plague or infection which is bringing the dead back to life.

The main image or key art shows the shows a disfigured human body which appears to be dead. This image takes most of the film poster up although, faded in the background seems to be an abandoned town which suggests to the audience that whatever has happened it’s an epidemic which has effected at least a whole town of people. Although the main image gives the audience some ideas about what the film plot could be it still leaves and creates a code of enigma leaving the audience with an unanswered question.

The movies tag line is positioned just at the bottom of the poster above the billing block. The tag line ‘’there is no peace in death’’ sends the viewer a very clear messages that dead have risen strengthening the ideas the audience have already gathered from the title and main image. The tag line could suggest that the dead have risen because they feel like they haven’t been put to rest properly or they feel like they have no peace.

There are no real strong iconic images on the poster apart from the main image which clearly shows a zombie almost coming at or attacking the viewer.  This iconic image gathers the viewer’s interest engaging them with the poster making it easier to understand the genre and what the narrative of the film could be like.

The billing block is conventionally at the bottom of the poster it has all the names of the producers and some of the stars on it. Throughout the billing block the colour of the font and style of font stay the same this is the conventional thing to be done and gives a visual professional look to the whole poster.