Analysing a film poster part 1.

People: In this poster is a character named 'V' who is a masked anarchist who seeks to systematically kill the leaders of Norsefire, which is a fascist dictatorship governing a post-apocalyptic United Kingdom. He is an expert in the arts of explosives, karate, knife throwing, and computer hacking, and has a vast dictionary, cultural and philosophical intellect. 'V' is the lone survivor of an experiment in which four dozen prisoners were given injections of a compound named "Batch 5." The compound caused vast cellular anomalies that eventually killed all of the subjects apart from V, who developed advanced strength, reflexes, endurance, durability and pain tolerance. Throughout the film, V almost always wears his trademark Guy Fawkes mask which includes a shoulder-length wig of straight dark-brown hair and an outfit consisting of black gloves, tunic, trousers and boots with a long black cape. When V is not wearing the mask, his face is not visabl. When outside the Shadow Gallery (his home), he completes this ensemble with a circa-17th century conical hat . His weapons of choice are daggers, explosives and fear.

The film suggests that 'V' took his name from the Roman numeral "V", which was the number of the room he was held in during the experiment. At the end of the film he kills Creedys bodyguads so quickly that the don't have time to reload their guns, However some bullets do penetrate his amour and he stumbles back to Evey and dies in her arms. Evey then assumes V's identity and gives the original V a Viking funeral by placing him inside a bomb-laden train whose eventual destination is Downing street.

The character "V" is presented as somewhat of an anarchist in the darkness suggesting an intimidating atmosphere. since he has two blades in his hands this implies that he is a masked killer, with lethal accuracy.

Design: We can see 'V' standing alone as if to look back at the person looking at the poster, this creates an illusion that he will come out of the poster and get you which evokes some emotions like fear and excitement. There is also an element of danger as 'V' is seen with two daggers which he an use to lethal accuracy.

Colour: There is a good combination between the black and red. However the red text does stand out and catch the viewers eye, there is also a quote from the film "People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people." which makes the person stop and think about the film, of what it will include.

Title: The title is in red across the bottom of the poster with 'V's signature in the background. The title is clear and easy to read as it is in red which is the boldest colour on the poster. It is also all in capitals to draw the attention towards the letter V since that is the running name for the character also for the cell door he was in, it also stands for vendetta as the title suggests.