The Film Title: The Final Destination (3D) Year of Release: 2009
Director: David R. Ellis
Producer: Craig Perry
Production/Financing company: New Line Cinemas, Practical Pictures, Parallel Zide and Flipzide Pictures.
Actors: Bobby Campo, Shantel Vansanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Justin Welborn, Stephanie Honore, Lara Grice, Jackson Walker, Phil Austin…
Films Origin/Info: Sequel/follow on from ‘final destination 1,2 and 3’.
Synopsis: The final destination films are about a serious of misfortunate events which take place within a group of friends/ people connected in some way. ‘The Final Destination’ all starts in a race track where many cars crash into one another and set alight then the stands start to collapse killing everyone who was there and all of the people who survive think that they have cheated death when all reality it’s all just started as they all end up being followed by these unfortunate events resulting in them loosing there lives also in gory, brutal ways. Although the trio Janet, Lori and Nick the three survivors or so it seems have premonitions throughout the whole film of how the survivors will lose their life so there faced against time to save these people and stop the premonitions from coming true.
Denotation: the main image of the poster is of broken mirror shattered in pieces on the floor. There is an image of a terrified girl merged with an image of a skull to create the full image. The image has low key lighting, and has the use of dark, misty colors.
Connotation: the use of shattered glass in the image gives the poster more of a scare factor. The use of a sharp object and making the pieces into a triangular shape has given the geometrical shape a connotation. With the glass being sharp our mind tricks us into thinking that something bad will defiantly happen making the poster have more of a scare factor. This is where the use of a sharp edge in a poster than a soft one is more abrupt and to us more harming so without the audience even realizing the hidden meaning behind using a sharp edge and not just seeing it as a piece of glass, there mind has already made it more scary and appealing without them even acknowledging it. The use of a skull represents death, giving us an indication from the poster there will be at least one death.
By looking at this poster for the final destination I personally would recommend that the age group for this film would lie within the ages 16-24. I think that would be the target audience, who it would most appeal to. I believe the film would reach out more to the male gender rather than female due to the fact it does look quite scary, although saying that this sort of poster would really appeal to me as I love my horror films, so really it is all dependant on the person and what they enjoy.
You can tell this poster is for a horror film in the fact that it is all in a dark mysterious colors. The use of black throughout this film poster creates more of a mysterious feel. Black is known as a mysterious color represented with fear and unknown which normally gives it a negative connotation. Where ‘The Final Destination’ is written in white but the use of the two thin white stripes behind the writing makes it look like a blade which opposes to the actually meaning of white which is purity, goodness, cleanliness etc… also where it is bright it reminded me of the myth when people say when you die you see a bright light indicating there will be death.
‘Rest in Pieces’. This is a very clever caption to put onto the poster.
1). you know someone is going to defiantly die.
2). The use of the word ‘pieces’ instead of ‘peace’ goes perfect with the picture and the shattered glass which is also in pieces but not only that all of the deaths are brutal and very gory in the fact that they get squished into small pieces etc... So the use of this caption is actually very clever in how it goes with the image and the actual meaning behind it.
The font used for the poster is a serif font yet it is very plain but bold. Even though it has been written normally the use of it being in capital letters and defined lettering does make it stand out.
The convention this poster does follow is what I touched on earlier with the triangular shapes. This is almost used in every horror/thriller poster of this day and age. The reason for this it subconsciously gives it a dark feel to the audience. Tagged with the dark mysterious colors really does follow all the conventions of a horror movies poster.
The images used for this poster could be quite disturbing for some people, with that in mind it lets us as the audience know that the mood of this film is going to be quite grim and scary.
This film poster doesn’t visually show any of the actors that are in the film or state any of their names on the poster therefore we know that they are trying to sell us more who are in the film, and telling us that isn’t the most important part of the film. Also by doing this it can create more of a buzz around the film as it would get people researching and seeing who will be in it and making them go to see the film too see what it actually is all about.
The poster I have chosen to do is actually a teaser poster; as there is no release date on it although the release month is stated. So the only credits on the poster are ‘August’.
The poster doesn’t seem to have a tagline on it but the title is a giveaway that it is a sequel from the other 3 final destination films.
There are no quotes on this poster as it is a teaser poster it wouldn’t have been viewed yet by any journalists.
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