Colour scheme

I am looking for a colour scheme for my DVD cover and my poster but also colours that will link in with my movie trailer. This is essential that this happens because people will be able to tell that the poster and DVD cover will link with the movie trailer. I have been researching the other posters that I looked at to see the colour scheme that they have used. Here is what I found;

• Prom night colour scheme-shades of black, Red and a faint white
• The Crazies colour scheme-shades of black and grey, red and white
• The Hills have eyes colour scheme- shades of brown and beige
• Paranormal Activity colour scheme-shades of black and grey, red, white and blue
• A nightmare on Elm Street colour scheme-black, brown and white merged together
• Saw colour scheme- white and black and beige
• Scream colour scheme-black, red and white.

As you can see all the colours are virtually the same that are used. This shows that the same colours are used to represent danger and fear and also show that the genre is a horror movie as it portrays this very well. This shows me that I will have to do sort of the same colour scheme if I want to follow the conventional thing that is done. I will just have to make mine look different to everyone else's so that people will be able to tell which one is my poster but I will also have to make it stand out. I can see why they have chosen these colours because they will link in with different scenes in their movie or poster/DVD cover. The have used red to portray blood, they have used black to link with the danger and the darkness that is used in the movie but they have used white so that the writing stands out on the poster.

These are the colour schemes that I have come up with;

These are the colour schemes that I picked. As you can see they don't really look that appealing when they are in blocks but once they are merged together on a poster and a DVD cover then it will look a lot better. I have picked the first and second colour scheme because it is what I thought was "traditional" and conventional as all the other horror posters had this colour scheme. This shows that it is very popular and it used for a reason. I have chosen colour scheme number 3 because it will portray the fact that I might be having my location in a woods which would relate to the leaves on the trees. This is the same for number four but this would make it look more dark and spooky. I will do a questionnaire on what people think of my colour schemes and then pick the one that it most liked by my peers.

This is a picture of my colours schemes blended together so people would be able to see what works together and whether the colours go. I think that this is a good idea to do this because the colours at the top don't look that appealing to me at the moment and this might be because they are in a block and not touching each other. Whereas these colours schemes look better because they are blended together and go together. These are just a plan of what might go onto my poster and my DVD cover as my mind might change throughout the planning process. This just gives a rough idea of what i am thinking of but what I also like and why I have chosen the colours that I have.