Inception Poster Analysis

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Title:

·         The film’s title ‘inception’ suggests that there are a group of people who are interfering with another person’s life

·         Inception also suggests that the film could be about seeing into the future

·         The film’s title is shown near the bottom of the poster

·         The font size is a lot bigger than the rest of the text on it

·         The title uses all capital letters to make itself bolder

·         The title is also red; where as the rest of the text is white. All this makes it stand out and easily identifiable to the audience

Main image:

·         This main image has used special effects in creating the background of the buildings going vertically towards the sky

·         In front of that are the main characters in the film, with the most important at the front, as it is the main character we focus on when we look at it

·         The background shows us that they want us to see that this is a big city with cars at the back and people still walking on the sidewalk

·         When we see this image of the street curving, we can figure out what type of genre it is, and we also see it’s something different that you usually wouldn’t expect, which is why it entices you

·         Each character is dressed in a suit holding a gun, so we see them as being a gangster type of group

·         The colours focus mainly on a light blue spreading to a darker blue this making it seem more like a film and less like real life.

Film Stars:

·         All of the stars names are at the top of the poster

·         We see the biggest film star, with his name big at the top running across the page in white.

·         The other film stars which are less know, underneath the biggest star, their first name in red and surname in white, this is mainly to highlight the biggest stars name, as if the other film stars first name were in white, it would take the focus off the biggest stars name

·         The main film stars are all shown on the poster, the main character is not usually associated with this type of genre and we see this by the way he is dressed and the fact that he is holding the gun

·         Each character is looking away from one another, which shows that they might not be in a strong relationship, and shows that they could be enemies.

Tag-line:

·         The tag-line is ‘your mind is the scene of the crime’.

·         Seems to show that it is a psychological film, and creates the sense that the movie is about something you do with your mind

·         It is shown just underneath the film stars in white again.

Credits:

·         The directors name is not shown, instead they have written ‘from the director of the dark night’, this is because the dark night was such a big success and the director might not have been recognised to everyone if his name was put on the poster

·         The director is shown underneath the title in white again

·         Every word is capitalised

·         Underneath the director it says some more things probably about the production and the people involved

·         There is also the production company and website shown at the very bottom, in small font and in white again

·         At the very bottom it shows the release date in white and the same size font as the main film star, as the date needs to stick out to the audience as well.

The films target audience seems to be 15-35 mostly male, judging from the poster. This poster also shows something different and shows something which advertises its film a bit differently, which is why we look more interested in it. This film looks differently id say mainly because of the buildings curving, and interests you because of how many main stars are in the film.