Lekan's Textual Analysis Of Final Destination 5 Poster

The film final destination 5 is about a group of survivors of a suspension-bridge that collapses and they later on in the film find out there’s no way you can cheat death. The director of this film is Steven Quale and stars actors such as Emma bell. The denotation of this film poster consists of a cracking skull in the centre of the poster; the background of the film poster is all in black. The masthead is situated in the bottom centre of the page and there are a variety of coverlines underneath it to provide the audience with some information of the film. The vocal point of this film poster is the main image which is of the cracking skull with big screws coming in and out of it. This image captures and connotes the whole concept of this film that it is going to be frightening and gruesome to the audience, it lets them know exactly what they are in for. This cracking skull also promotes the target audience this film will appeal to because it this film poster presents the film as being not very pleasant and suitable for young people. The background colour consist of low key lighting the colour black which connotes of a dark lonely evil place of a scary prospect and could be telling the audience that when watching this film there is no where to hide. Also the creators of this poster has thought about the background colour being black because by it being black it brings out the attention of the cracking skull which is meant to be the main attraction of the poster and this background colour will make the audience pay close attention to detail to it. Moving on to the masthead it is not very appealing it is all in capital letters to stand out and look big and the font used was son’s serif font due to the no flick ups it has and the colour of the masthead is sliver. However the ‘5’ in the masthead is not in a normal font the tip and end of the 5 is very point and looks very sharp this could connote of danger that might be present in this film also show the audience that this film is going to be far from pretty. This horror film poster has one main goal which is to scare us hence the slogan at the top centre of the poster "DEATH HAS NEVER BEEN CLOSER" also at the bottom centre of the page it has "COMING SOON" in capital letters with red font, this red font connotes of blood and terror desgined to catch the audiences attention.