Title: The Ring
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Year: 2002
Paradigmatic conventions:
Setting: America, Apartment, Cabin,
Character: Two teenage girls, Mother, Father and a son.
Villain: A dead girl.
Props: T.V, Hands, demonic powers.
Evokes fear: Having a deadline on life, knowing when you are going to die and not being able to pro-long your life.
Plot synopsis: Two teenage girls are having a sleep over, when one tells the other about a tape she watched with her boyfriend in a cabin in the forest seven days before and the story that goes with the tape; that seven days after viewing this tape the viewer is expected to die. Later on in the evening this prediction is shown to be true. The dead girls younger cousin Aiden is visibly affected by her death. The girls mother asks Aiden's mum Rachel to investigate the death of her daughter which leads Rachel to the cabin in the woods and leads to her watching the tape. After viewing the tape Rachel gets a phone call of a child's voice saying 'seven days'. With this all panic breaks out and crazy scenarios begin to take place. This soon leads to her son and her former lover to also watch the tape, and quickly their life time runs out. Can they break the curse and figure out the story behind the tape before their life ends.
Poster analysis:
The poster is mainly black to highlight the dark aspects of this film, the dark story behind the deaths about to take place. The white ring around the title 'The Ring' doesn't only draw attention to the title but also hints at the demonic girl seen later in the film that is trapped down a well. The font of the title is quite child like as it is a horror film concentrate on a young boy being haunted by a dead girl, this font highlights their youth. The tag line 'before you die, you see' this links to the plot of the film that once you watch the tape you are destined to die seven days later. All writing on the poster is white so that it contrasts the black background and attracts the viewers eye and attention.
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