Poster Breakdown

Website Breakdown

Poster Plan

I am going to use one main picture, this is used by many other film posters. I have also placed the text and the tittle under the picture, this is also used by other film posters.

Research Into Traget Audience

The target audience for a generic thriller film would be 18-30 but the sub-genre for the actual film would affect the target audience. My film trailer is a crime thriller the typical target audience for this type of film would be 25-45.

Trailer research

I have researched into different film trailers to get an idea of the general codes and conventions that are involved in a thriller film trailer. From what I have watched I noticed that most of the trailers have a dark feeling about them, this is because of the music they use and the background of the trailer.

Limitless is a thriller film directed by Neil Burger, the trailer uses a fast paced timeline which shows some of the storyline of the film as it shows how the charcter lives. It also gives flashes of  action with fighting scenes.



The Lincoln Lawyer is an American thriller film, it starts of slow so the audience gets an idea of the storyline. The pace of the images increases during the action to make it more dramatic and to keep the audience interested.

Source Code is a American science fiction-techno-thriller, again this trailer starts of slow and bulids up speed in the images, this gives it a more dramatic feel to this audience.

Website planning



This is my plan for my website, I plan to use one main picture and have links at the bottom and the top of the page. This goes along with the codes an conventions of thriller film websites.

Thriller film posters

This is my research for posters of thriller films, this shows what are the codes and conventions for a thriller poster.

This poster of the Harry Brown film uses three pictures and has very little text apart from reviews and the title. This is quite a simple poster but it gets the audiences attention.

This poster for Shutter Island is also quite simple it uses a combination of two pictures and has little text. This poster would also catch the audiences attention although it is simple it shows enough through the pictures to capture a persons attention without it being boring.  

This poster for the Black Swan film is again simple, it uses one picture of the main character and has a bit of text informing the audience of the films title, actors in the film and when its being released. The picture is striking which reflects the type of film as it is a pyshcological thriller.

This poster of the film Frozen uses a dark picture of the setting of the film, there are also two characters in the picture showing a situation in the film. The uses of a dark picture shows the nature of the film. The poster has a small amount of text which includes qoutes from reviews and the title of the film.