How does El Laberinto Del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) attract an Audience?
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Release Date: 2006
Poster:
- Dark atmosphere to poster
- Single character
- Forgein language titles and informatio
- Director's name shown in red
- The two other main characters are discreetly shown, merged into the backgroud of the poster
- Genre is made obvious by the 'twistedess' of the poster - it is a dark fantasy film
- Date of release show at the top
- Less important information shown
- Companies that the film is associated with are shown along the bottom
- Main character is shown to look innocent and vulnerable, and she is surrounded by darkness and monsters
Trailer:
- Film specifications are shown at the beginning (green background)
- Production company is shown first
- Narration of trailer, descibing film
- Shots shown flow along with the narration
- Explosions and war sequences are shown, showing violoence and war
- 'Young girl' and books with pictures - indicate some sort of fairytail, fanatasy film
- Words used by narrator indicate fantasy 'escape' 'legend' 'lost soul of a princess'
- Popularity of the film is shown 'Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival'
- Non diegetic, spooky music is playing throughout
- Main characters are introduced by showing quick shots of them, such as the Faun
- The monster is only shown a couple of times for a maximum of 1 second, to raise tension and mystery
- Title is shown at the end, in a 'creeping' way
- Information is shown after the title, such as the release date and the website
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