Comparing film posters (Love Actually and Halloween II)

Love Actually is a comedy romance film that was made in 2003. The film is directed by Richard Curtis. The film starts off with a man at Heathrow Airport who is waiting for the arrivle of friend and family. There is then a voiceover about a the incidient of 9/11. The film is them followed by a stream of love stories of many people. As the title suggests, the film Love Actually is about people falling in love.

The film poster shows all the people who are in love. All the images are tired together with a red riben. The reason why the colour of the image is red is because red is a colour associated with love. The film poster creators also uses the riben to make the film poster look like a gift, at the bow of the riben there is a tag with a heart at the bottom of the tag. In the title in the film poster in the title Love Actually the word Love in typed in the colour red, the text is also bold. The boldness and redness of the word red also suggests a sense of love and ramance in the film.

Halloween II is horror film that was made in 1981. The film is directed by Rick Rosenthal. As the title suggests the film is set at Halloween time. The film is about somebody breaking into a house a steealing a knife. The murderer in the film is sshot many times, however he does not die, he stabs other people after he has been shot. The murderer hunts people down throughout the film to kill them.

The film poster uses the colour black, the colour black is associated with death, there are many deaths in this film. The main image on the film poster is of a pumpkin, pumpkins are associated with halloween and halloween is always seen ro be a scary time of the year. The writting on the film poster is in white, this colour stands out again the black background.

Both of these film posters are the complete opposite to eachother. The film posters are a contrast between happy (Love Actually) and sad (Halloween II). My film will not be a happy film like Love Actually but will be a more sad film like Halloween II because there will be a bulgary taking place.