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One thing that made this poster very appealing to me was that of its colour scheme. The colour scheme of the poster is very stereotypical of the thriller genre. The main colour which is black represents the mystery of the movie surrounding the movie and the poster with suspense and intrigue. The main text on the poster is coloured in red which also links with the theme of thriller as it links to the idea of blood, violence and danger. These two colours perfectly sum up the main themes of the thriller and straight up tell the audience what they can expect from the movie and also what genre it is. This is something that i really liked about the poster as perfectly manages to sum up what the movie will be about.

The poster also does something very different. The poster includes quite a lot of text. This is something that is very different from the norm of your stereotypical poster. Normally a poster will not include much text to try and make it simple and more effective. However this poster completely breaks the norm featuring a lot of text. This allows the poster to stand out from many of the other posters out on the market. The text in the middle of the page is clearly a quote from the movie which adds further intrigue into the poster as audiences would want to know who that is being said about and what the context is about the quote.  As well as the quote from the movie the poster also includes a tagline at the top of the poster which states "They've taken his daughter, now he's taking them down". This allows the audience to get an insight into the movie and let them have some idea of what the movie is about and also what is going to happen in the movie. This generates more buzz and interest in the movie making the audience want to know more about the movie.

Another thing i also very much liked about this poster was the very title of the movie, The title is featured at the bottom of the poster and is situated somewhere where it is very easily noticeable and can be easily seen by the audience. Another thing that i liked about the title of the movie was that it is very simple. The name of the film is just one word and the word that they have chosen to use is the word 'taken'. This title is very simplistic and very simple and easily tells the audience what to expect from the from the film as clearly the title sums up the films plot which is exactly what the title of the movie is meant to do.

The main image of the poster is something i very much liked about this poster. It features just one singular image yet manages to perfectly sum up the events of not just the movie but also the sum some of the character motives and what he is about. The character is holding a gun which supports the idea of violence and action happening in the movie. Another thing i like about the image is how it is positioned on the poster. The character is positioned to look like he is in a action shot and is about to shoot something making the poster look more authentic and more intriguing. The character also is shot so that it seems he is also fading into the shadows making more intrigue around the character as it makes more suspense and mystery as it seems to suggest that there are things about him that we do not know.

The poster also includes a little collage of images to the left and right of the main image. These little images show little parts of the movie that can add intrigue to the movie because it shows some of the movies most dramatic moments adding to the suspense of it all and make the poster seem more interesting.

Overall i really liked this poster, it seems to many different things that make it more unique and also things that is very stereotypical for a poster. It all makes up for a really effective and nice poster that executes all the needs of a poster.