Film Poster Deconstruction: Psychological Thriller

Memento (2000).

When we were looking into other psychological films to get inspiration and common conventions for our film poster we found the film memento which used Polaroid pictures in their film poster, the way that they used these was also very interesting to look at to see how they were placed and arranged on the film posters considering there were different styles of them.

The first poster consists of the two main characters looking into a mirror with three Polaroids displayed on the mirror as well. This has a big impact on the audience, it makes you look at the main characters as the woman is almost breaking the barrier between them and the audience but also gets you to wonder what are the Polaroids are trying to tell you as they are fairly small within the poster.
The typography of 'memento' is very bold as the white against the dark background draws your eyes to it even though it's not the main focus of the poster.
Also the way that the angle is positioned with the over shoulder shot involved makes you almost feel as if you are the main characters and know that the psychological element of the film is involving one of these characters.









The second poster's main focus is on the Polaroids themselves which are positioned right in the middle of the poster. The images in the Polaroids are almost like they are trying to put together a whole image but not quite doing so.
The colour scheme of black and white conform to the conventions of a psychological thriller film. The rough textured background makes you think there is something underlining within the plot and characters of the film.
The typography again on this poster is very bold against the black background and also the scratchy almost handwritten style of the text makes it look almost more personal and psychologically triggering as it looks as if one of the characters could have written this.

The third poster is very psychological as the Polaroid pictures are shown repeatedly over and over again creating a duplication of them on the poster. The same scrawly writing is used for the typography of the title which again give it a connotation to the psychological genre of the film. Again the colour scheme consists of dark colours but also within this poster there are some yellows, reds and oranges within the Polaroids. This gives them almost a street light glow to them, making them look more realistic and almost stalker like.  Placing the information on the Polaroid itself really draws attention to the importance of them as they also take up the whole of the poster.