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Thursday 29 October 2009

ANALYSIS OF DVD COVERS

THE BOURNE IDENTITY


The first thing we see on the front cover is the main character, Jason Bourne played by Matt Damon. Haveing a famous movie star on the fromt cover can often help sell a film. We can tell he is the main character becasue he is in all of the pictures on both the back and the front covers, they also show us they type of character he is. We can see he is on the run from something or someone because on the main picture he looks to be running but also on teh back cover he is running away from somehing. The stills on the cover show us the type of film it will be and that is very action packed, with guns, chases, explosions and ofcourse woomen. The pictures on the cover can appeal to both men and women as the action and guns will appeal to the men where as the kissing may appeal to the women, which gives the film a larger audience. Also the two colours on the cover, could also mean he is more than one person or leads more than on life. The cover is very attracting and would defenately get people to buy it, making it effective.


NORTH BY NORTHWEST
This cover is a lot different to the Bourne Identity. Here there is only one shot , and it is that of the main character Roger Thornhill played by James Mason runnig away from a low flying plane. This shows us the amount of danger he finds himself in during the film, which would make people want to watch it as it seem so thrilling and also want to find out what it is he did to get himself into that situation. The title of the film is very bold, the colour red makes it stand out on the pale blue backround, the font is also intriguing because you do not normally assosiate 'fun' writing with thrillers.
The colours used are good as they do not blend in with each other but they stand out, making the cover more eyecatching and bold.
From the cover we can defenately see that it is a thriller film and the PG rating is great as it can have a very wide and large audience, although the man running away from the plane will defenatel appeal more to boys and men.


Silence Of The Lambs

The first impression of this cover is that the film is that the film is quite eiry and ghostly. The main picture is of a womans very pale face, which could mean she is either dead or a ghost of somesort. The butterfly is over her mouth, 'silencing' her which is a very clever thing to do as this is in the title of the film. Her eyes are the same colour as the butterflies wings, and being on such a pale white background they stand out a lot and seem as if she is looking at us, also the psoitioning of the eyes also make it feel that as we move the eyes move with us, making us feel a little frigtened. The black background is scary as the two colours of white and black realy stand out on each other, emphasisng the face. Also the title of the film is in red which defentely stands out, although it is very small compared to the picture. Which may been the people who made this thought the picture would say it all. Lastly the colour sceme of Red, White and Black, determines to us that the film is going to be frightening with blood and murder in it. Overall it is a very good poster and all the elements work well with each other.

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