Hitman Poster Analysis

The following text that i will be analysing is called “Hitman” the game poster.
In this poster the main priority is the dead women lying on a bed with a bullet womb in her forehead. The connotation of this text is that even though she is dead she is still implying the story of the actual game. In addition, the denotation would be that the poster is illustrating to the target audience a female who has potentially been shot as she has blood dripping from her forehead.
As far as the mise- en -scene is concerned it also creates an atmosphere of love and passion as you can identify the dead female on a red covered bed.
This clearly suggests that the mise- en-scene is setting different thoughts in the audiences mind as the female is half dressed like a whore as well as having the shot womb on her forehead. The core ideologies the typical assumptions made by the audience would be that it creates an ideology of sexuality as the female is not wearing full clothing. Another ideology would be that there is some sort of love when someone sees this poster.

Moreover, the institution has an impact on the text as it is a games console is largely dominated institution and is well known for their games. Play station is the institution and is well known across the world for its powerful status.