The Evil Dead - Poster Analysis

 

This film poster ‘The Evil Dead’ shows a struggling girl, pulling herself from the ground. Whilst a hand is gripping her around the neck showing actions of her being pulled into the earth and dragged under. This gives connotations of her trying to escape somewhere; perhaps hell as hell is often portrayed to us as being underground.

The colour scheme has cold damp colours which gives off a feeling of fear in this picture, along with very cold emotions which the audience will feel from the overall colour. Along with the image of the girl being pulled under this can give her a sense of being trapped. Along with the colour scheme the font is bold with quirky corners on each letter which gives it a mysterious look, which again goes along with the fact it’s a horror film. The font is also eye catching as its white text against a dark background which really stands out and is also easy for people to read in a short amount of time, which is good if this poster is on a billboard.

The slogan which is given at the top of the poster claims it’s ‘The most ferociously original horror film of the year’, this would grab any fan of horror films attention due to the descriptive language, plus claiming its one of the best horror films of the year. The title of the film ‘The Evil Dead’ also would claim horror film fans attention as its short and precise, as evil and dead connotations are common characteristics of successful horror films.

The fact that the film poster has been drawn or sketched with a very old style in tone rather than photographed; this suggests the film will be set a few years ago, as it hold a very 80's looking styled 

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

 

Date	Scene	What goes on
15th September	First initial scenes with Matt and Simon at the train station.	Simon and Matt are walking to the train station. Matt is very drunk and Simon has an arm around him helping him walk.
17th September	Inside the train station scenes and riding on the train.	Matt and Simon sing with each other whilst waiting for the train at the station. And we also filmed the part when Matt shows Simon the pill which he bought and intends to take at the party he is going to.
7th October	Matt and Simon going their separate ways.	Matt parts with Simon, With Matt heading to the party, he is also shown taking the drug which he bought.
10th October	All of the party scenes	Matt arrives at the party after taking the pill and looks much disassociated sitting on the sofa. We then get the shots where Matt feels the full effects of the drugs and goes to talk to his crush Lucy.
19th October	Re-Shooting of some of the party scenes.	Re shot the scenes where Matt was talking to Smally and a re shoot of him talking to Lucy.
30th October	Final scenes of Matt coming home and getting into bed with Simon.	Matt says his brother was right about lucy and looks very sorry for himself as the drug’s effects have now worn off.