The beautiful poster for Andrew Webber’s opera-adapted film – The Phantom of the Opera – features fabulous design. The mixture of red and black conveys a mysterious, sad and dark phenomenon, which fits the touching but hopeless love in the film. Half of the phantom (the man in the poster)’s face is inside the dark color and the other half is behind the mask. It is just like him in the movie that he always lives in the darkness and hides the true self behind the mask. The light on the girl, Christine’s, face implies that she is the only hope inside the phantom’s life. He wants to touch and own her.
The typeface also fits the poster and the story. Since The Phantom of the Opera talks about a classic love story happened in an opera house back to the 19th century, the classic font fits the story well. The larger size of “phantom” and “opera” highlights the main character and place of the story.
Comments:
This poster accurately represents the film in its appearance. The fact that the phantom wears half of a mask and half of the poster is in darkness is a good mirrored representation. Also, the use of negative space draws the viewer in, and the text isn’t overwhelming so the poster is very aesthetically pleasing. I like your critique of the type of font. I also agree with your analysis of the light shining on Christine.