Analysis of front covers of Horror/Thriller Films and Music Used

This front cover is for The Horde, just by looking at the cover you can quickly pick up what the film is about and possibly main characters and scenes. On the cover you see three characters hire than all the hands, this shows that these people are the main characters in the film, also they are equipped with guns to show that there will be violence and action in this. Also they are surrounded by hands which are trying to grab them, the viewer would associate this zombies trying to grab humans to kill them, this is quickly confirmed by the quote " The die hard of zombie flicks", This has 'Die Hard' and 'Zombie' in bigger font than the rest of the sentence this is because they want the viewer to look at these certain parts which gives them a hint to the film. The music in the opening scene varies a lot, it starts off very tense with the seeing of a dead body, but then when the scene changes to a calm setting the music is softer and peaceful.

This is the front cover for Orphan, straight away the first thing you notice is this girl, this is because there is a close up of the girl's face which shows to the audience, this girl has some importance to the film and possibly the main character. Also the way she is looking straight is almost as if she is looking at you as a person and it is disturbing and makes the viewer uneasy even before watching the film. The slogan for this film is "There's something wrong with Esther", this brings the seriousness of the story down and how even know this girl may seem normal there is still this sense of disturbance about her and this makes the viewer uneasy and uncomfortable about her from the start. The music at the opening scene is very calm because it is just showing the equilibrium of life and how everything is okay and what they are
doing is perfectly normal to adopt a child.

By listening to the music of the opening scenes, it had given me idea's to the types of music I'm going to use in my own opening scene, i will either go with the drums to build the tension in the scene or the calm mood to show to the audience that yes it's okay for now but there will be a twist in there soon.