There is a man standing center screen shouting in anger with his arms out, behind him is an army. this shows that the film is about war fare. there is typography above the man in blood red capitals saying "tonight we dine in hell" This suggests a horror aspect to the film. The picture uses a vast amount of blood this is a blatant indicator that there will be alot of blood shed throughout the film, however this would be obvious anyway due to the war aspect.The man is shown to us at the center of the screen,showing that he is the main character within this . the semiotics of his arms out to the sides suggests that he is trying to show a sense of massiveness. He seems like he is trying to make himself look bigger than what he is to show a threatening and intimidating look.
The lighting of this picture is shown to be a dull sepia tone. This makes the atmosphere sinister and dreary. It feels as if the reason they are making the background so dull and boring is to make the blood to a focal point. It is showing that blood is a big part of the film and is an obvious indicator of gore. Although blood can mean evil, i feel that the red could be an indicator of passion, passion not being love but being the passion they have for the reason they fight. The movie title 300 is shown as a splash of blood, This instantly reveals to the viewer that it will be gory, it also fore shadows the idea that something bad is going to happen to something surrounding the figure 300.
Interesting ideas, Kaitlyn. You pick out lots of different facets of the poster to analyse, which is good, and you make some intelligent comments. I like your use of personal opinion, and your debate over ideas.
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