Movie Posters: Hooks and Codes
Cult taglines, colour codes and poster clichés: can you crack the visual tricks?
What this quiz asks
- 1The short line meant to grab viewers on a poster is called what?
- 2"In space, no one can hear you scream": this famous tagline belongs to which film?
- 3A shark rising from the deep toward a swimmer: this poster announces which classic?
- 4On action-movie posters, which high-contrast pair of colours keeps coming back?
- 5Two stars back to back, arms crossed, half-smiling: this layout almost always signals which genre?
- 6Which designer is famous for his spare posters and title sequences (The Man with the Golden Arm, Vertigo)?
- 7The block of tiny credits lined up at the bottom of a poster has an English name: which one?
- 8Which illustrator painted the cult posters for Indiana Jones and Back to the Future?
- 9The Pulp Fiction poster is deliberately designed to look like which object?
- 10On the Silence of the Lambs poster, what is resting over the heroine's mouth?
