Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness Teaser Poster

Information about the film for better understanding of analysis.

In the early 1980s, after decades of steady deterioration, writer and academic John Hull lost his sight. To help him make sense of the ensuing upheaval in his life, he began to keep an audio diary. Across three years, he created over 16 hours of material; these recordings would form a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness.

Sensitive, poetic and thought-provoking, the film charts Hull’s journey through emotional turmoil and spiritual crisis to a renewed perception of the world and the discovery of ‘a world beyond sight’.

Analysis of the teaser poster

The character of John Hull is at the centre of the poster and is also the first thing that a person sees when looking at it, this is telling the viewer that he is the main protagonist in the movie. The idea that he is the centre of the poster could also be a connotation that the movie revolves around him and his struggles with blindness.

An interesting point about the positioning of the character is also that their head is what is dead centre of the entire poster, this could not also be suggesting that they are in fact the main character but also that John Hull's world is revolved and is centred around the images inside of his head as he is blind. However the head could also be symbolising the brain, as that is found inside of the head, as we find out that John Hull is an intelligent man who conducts ground breaking researching about the issue of blindness.

John Hull is also seen alone in the poster, much as he is alone in his mind due to his condition as he cannot see anyone else himself so the viewer is placed into his shoes to try and show them how people in blindness view the world.

There is also a dark shadow that is covering his face,especially the eyes, the shadow could be a symbolisation of blindness and it could connote how blindness has taken over his face and quite literally leaves him in the dark. Due to the shadow being there we cannot see John's eyes which could also be another symbol of blindness.

The poster includes the name of the film at the very top of the poster in big bold letters that make them stand out from anything else on the poster, this is because the editor making the poster wants people the see the name of the film and remember its name so that they can later go and watch it. There are also reviews from famous sources to furthermore make the viewer want to go an see the film when it releases. The bottom of the poster is reserved to give credit to the studios that worked and helped in the creation of the film, they are written in a small font to not take too much attention from the main parts of the poster.