Devil Poster and film reviews

- The Tagline lets us put together the idea of the Devil and being possessed if someone travelling in an elevator is not what they seem. Also playing on the fear of Claustrophobia, being trapped in an elevator with five people around you.

- The key image is the elevator doors slightly open with just enough gap to show an upside down cross. When we normally see a cross sign we are instinctively relate it to religion, god and Jesus, however because this cross is upside down it could be representing the opposite to God which would be the Devil. Also the 6 at the top of the elevator representing the level they are on, also symbolizes the Devils and his number, “666”.   

-The Title is placed at the bottom of the poster which could relate to the Devil being beneath us, also the tip of the cross is in between the ”V” in the word Devil almost giving us the impression that the red flames are coming from the Devil.

-The Credit block is traditionally placed at the bottom of the poster.
-The Studio and distributors logos are again traditionally at the bottom of the poster.

Devil - The Night Chronicles | Trailer #1 US (2010)

Narrative Timeline:

Period of Equalibrium:
Walking into a building.
Signing in.
Waiting for an elevator.

Moment of Disequalibrium:
When the elevator doors behind them open.

Period of Disequalibrium: 
The elevator stops.
The weather is stormy and dark. ( The camera pans up from the bottom of the building to the top, giving us the impression they are stuck high up in the building)
Lights go out
Hearing sound.
A woman has been hurting, Bleeding.
Not trusting eachother.
Strange things flickering on the camera.
Police, Fire brigade, and security cant get into the elevator.
Fighting eachother, trying to protect themselves with glass.
Flickers of them lying on the floor dead.
Glass smashing.
Screaming.
Someone falling from a building.
Falling down an elevator sharft.
Shawdow of someone fitting.


Film Report:
Title: Devil
Directed By: John Erick Dowdle
Year: 2010

Paradigmatic Conventions:
Setting: America, Elevator.
Characters: Five People. Tony, Old Woman. Sarah. Ben and Salesman.
Villan: The Devil.
Props: The elevator.

Plot Synopsis:
Five people are stuck in an elevator and one of them is not who they appear, One of them is the Devil. Strange things start to happen and people get hurt and start to die. No one can get to them and they are running out of time. Their only way to save themselves is to see themselves as they really are.