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‘WHY SO SERIOUS’!- the words The Joker said to a man before slicing his mouth in the Dark Knight and using blood to write ‘WHY SO SERIOUS’ and I’m going to find out how effective it is; wouldn’t you want to know too? In addition, to find out this answer to this question you have to keep on reading, so what are you waiting for?

‘SOMETHING HAS FOUND US’ the heading of Cloverfield. The ‘US’ in the text to me sounds like it’s from another planet, but which planet? Also, it has this monster that in fact, is terrorizing New York City.

The Dark Knight:

Firstly, the writ9ing of the text ‘WHY SO SERIOUS’ to me look like it is writing in blood. From the Jokers angle he is writing backwards so the viewers can see it the right way. This represents that the Joker wants us the viewers to see what he is writing. I think that this feature is effective because the viewers want to know: Why is the Joker writing in blood? Whose blood is he using to write? And who is the Joker trying to ask this question to? The target audience I consider is being the age of 15 or above as blood represents violence and it will maybe give a fright to the younger children and may influence them in a bad way, i.e. violence.

Secondly, the last letter of the word ‘SERIOUS’ which is ‘S’ could be a meaning of ‘Smile’. I think this because the way the letter ‘S’ is linked to the Jokers smile that he writes with blood. In fact, this might represent that the Joker is never serious and so neither should the rest be. This feature is not that effective as not most people can see this feature so without seeing it how could it be effective to the viewers?

The Joker is wearing a pair of leather gloves and he is pointing at us, the viewers, as he is writing the text ‘WHY SO SERI...

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...e to expect the exciting connection between night and tl:e

uniqueness/horrible. Furthermore Like most movies in the Horror genre there is an element of punishment

which again would add to the pleasures of the film for the audience.

A smudged computerized title makEthe viewers want to lmow why is it smudged. What does this mean? The

title is in the bottom centre of the poster. The detail of the title is smudged which i think it makes the poster

look serious! This feature is effective to ttre viewers because the computerized smudge makes it more

serious and the viewers want to know why it is smudged. Why isnt it normally capital letters? Does this

mean New York City is in serious danger? The spacing of the ietter is falling apart and maybe the city is

falling apart too. The spacing out I thjnk also means the electricity is powering off and New York City is in a

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