POSTERS

Seeing as a poster is my subsidiary task one, I decided to have a look at posters for some films featuring animals and deconstruct them.

The first poster I chose to deconstruct is the poster for Lassie (1994). At the bottom of the poster we see a young boy and Lassie, the fictional collie, running together - of course this connates to the traditional saying of 'man's best friend'. This relates to the tagline of "best friends are forever"; underneath large lettering of Lassie's name in red - the red denotes perhaps love, but also could be a symbol for blood, because often in Lassie films there will be some hideous display of animal cruelty.

The next film poster I chose to deconstruct was 'Cujo', a film about a dog who turns savage after being bitten by a bat. This one is basically self-explanatory - red lettering denotes blood, crazed dog face - big teeth denotes death and grevious bodily harm and what not. I actually find this quite frightening after a time - the more I look at it the more human the eyes seem - perhaps this was deliberate, and distances us from the though of this crazy dog, and makes it seem more human, personifies it.