I have chosen to analyse these posters becuase they fit some of the codes and conventions of horror and true crime. The genre for these posters are true crime. I chose to do an analasise these posters because they fit in with the themes of horror and true crime. I found these posters aesthetically pleasing to look at and thought they would be a good chose to analyse.
This poster is for a Tv documentary series called 'The Ripper'. The main focus of this poster is the man's face in the top half, which is faded and is overlooking the town below which I believe is the town he committed the murders in. The title of the series is near the bottom of the page. It tells us it's about a murder called 'The Ripper' but it doesn't say which Ripper. But after some research, the series is about 'The Yorkshire Ripper'. and all of the murders he committed and how he did this. This is the second famous Ripper, after 'Jack the Ripper'. You can see that they have added a date to the poster as well as the Netflix logo. This helps the audience to know when the series is going to be released and that it is only watchable on Netflix as the tagline says 'A Netflix Original Documentary Series'.
This poster for the Tv documentary series is plain and simple as it is a birds eye view of a little girl walking across the beach, next to the sea on her own. This implies that she is lost as she is on her own with no one near her. The shadow coming from the girl (Madeleine McCann) is a lot bigger than it should be. This suggests that the young girl has been missing for so long that she is a lot older now compared to her on the poster and the age that she went missing.The title of the series tells us what the series will be focusing on. Some of the letters in the title are blurry and are fading away, this implies that because Madeleine is missing and is slowly fading away from society. And soon the letters from the title and her name this suggest that she is going to be missing as she currently is. As you can see, there is no date of when the series is going to be released. This is either because the series is currently on Netflix. Or if it isn't on Netflix already, they want the release to be a surprise as Madeleine's disappearance was a surprise to the world. You can also see that above the title of the series, Netflix is there. This is because the series is a Netflix Original and will only be shown on Netflix.
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