Total Film Magazine Analysis: TRON

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This Tron poster is set somewhere in the ‘Grid’ a place made of data and electronic information inside the narrative of Tron. Nothing in the image can help us determine what time of day it is for the characters however the use of pale blue lighting connotes a sense of night time representing moonlight. The characters are all wearing costumes similar to the very location they are stood at: black and pale blue, which is also the same for the magazine issue’s masthead and main cover line. A kind of ambience is created by the main subject holding an iconic movie prop at the right height for it to be one of the letters for the movie title. The characters on the main cover are lit from below to make it appear that the typography is in fact lighting them, this again represents a kind of ambience.

The way in which the characters are standing gives the shot a sense of narrative. They are positioned into a triangular formation holding their futuristic weapons representing defence. The style of the entire issue follows the iconography of Tron, the sleek black shapes with fluorescent edges lit in pale blue; a vogue that was a large part of futuristic films during the time that the first Tron film was released (July 1982). Both men have very stern facial expressions connoting anger and representing masculinity while the women is posed in a way that shows the curves of her body connoting femininity and representing sexualisation.



Overall the use of blacks and pail blues connote a strong sense of purity and represent the nature of data and electricity. This is conventional to the iconography of most arthouse style science fiction films.