Analysis Kick Ass Film Poster

I chose to analysis the Kick Ass poster as it links to the child super hero theme of my short film. The film was very successful in the box office, and I think the poster is very successful in advertising the film. Although a super hero film, the film does have some parody moments, sort of making fun of super hero films.

Features
The main feature of the poster is the main character in the centre. He is wearing an obvious super hero costume, but he is than wearing worker boots on is feet. This small touch of normality in his costume adds comedic value, and also gives hint of this story line- the fact he is  not a super hero.  This gives me ideas for my poster. As I want to add comedic value by adding hints to the fact that this is a fake documentary (e.g. giving my super hero a homemade looking costume).

The back ground of the poster is a red back drop with a blood spat directly behind the character. The crimson red back drop gives a heroic feeling to the poster. The blood stain makes the character look more like a super hero and fits super hero connotations.

The font of the writing on the front cover is very traditionally super hero style. fitting the themes of the film. The fact that such an obvious super hero font is used gives hint that this film is a sort of parody. As a serious super hero film in modern day would not use such an obvious font.

There is a small tag line above the title saying 'on april 2nd, get ready too', this than leads into the title of the film. This tag line grabs your attention and also gives you the release date of the film.