Poster analysis 'The Silence of the Lamb'

The Silence of the Lambs
Release date: 1991
Director: Jonathon Demme
Writers: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally.

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We don't know if the person in the poster is a boy or a girl, and so the audience will get intrigued, creating another enigma code.

There are also credits in small writing at the bottom of the poster with the actor's names. This would mean fans would recognise the actors and go and watch the movie, increasing in viewers.
Overall this poster is portrayed as a typical teaser poster, not giving much information away.

There are binary opposites in the poster as we can see the top left is really bright and the bottom right is the darkest. The way we would read the poster is from top left to bottom right and so this can enable the audience to know that there is not much more information about the film they can give in the poster, creating an enigma code and allowing the audience to wait with anticipation until the film is released.

The type of poster this is, is the main theoretical poster as it contains the information about the production personnel, the stars and the distributors.

The only way you can tell this poster is from the horror genre is because of the black and white theme where the face is mainly white, the background is black and the only pop of colour is of the devil moth on the lips. This creates a sense of enigma as we don't know why it is there and what it's significance is in the film.

After changing the image to black and white, it is easier now to add and intensify colours as there are advances and improvements in technology. For example, if it was edited using Photoshop, the editor could crop the pupils out and change them to a different colour as they did in the poster here.

I believe the unique selling point of the poster would be the unusual replacement of lips by a moth.
The font of the title is also very straightforward and simple and easy to read. This connotes that maybe the storyline is also easy to understand even if the poster isn't.
The poster is similar to our idea of a poster as we are intending to have it portrait with one side having dark shadows and the other side having white lighting.