The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a film that starts with the sexual assault of the main female protagonist of the piece. This has a similar opening sequence to our teaser trailer and planned full length feature film. This therefore helped to influence our poster. The poster seen below depicts the two main protagonists of the piece, however one is turned away and one stares dead at the audience. From this shot the power is given to the male protagonist as the female is seen behind him and is not the focus of the piece.
The shadow art seen on the poster of the two protagonists helped to influence how we create our poster. We decided to also use this theme of shadow however we covered half of our protagonists face with the silhouette of the attacker. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has a dark grey and black colour scheme which enables it to set the tone of a action film with a serious tone to the piece by not making it a typical explosions and fighting action film. There is a serious issue being addressed in this film by the opening shot and despite not getting that part of the narrative from the posters graphics, the typography indicates that there is something to uncover.
The tagline is useful to spark interest in the full length film. "What is hidden in snow, comes forth in the thaw" indicates that part or maybe all of the narrative of this film is uncovering a secret and possibly overcoming it in the climax of the piece. This is similar to ours and we used a similar style of tagline in our own poster. Taking the idea of two separate statements to create an aura of mystery or uncovering a secret was useful in our piece as we aim to combat the social norms when considering the way society reacts to sexual assault.
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