Development of Film Poster

Poster 1: I'm starting to develop the film poster from the research i have done. I like this poster as the focus on the girl looks as though someone is spying on her. The little amount of blood signifies that it is a horror and tells the audience instantly that blood will be spilt. The use of the plain background is effective, as it suggests death, usually when someone dies the camera slowly blacks out. I dont want it to mean that the protagonist dies, but there is death within the film. I'm not to happy about the typography or blood splatter as it's too small an unnoticeable and seems pointless for being there. I dont think the typography is very effective as it doesnt seem like a typical horror typeface, the movie has characters set in a previous era but i don't want to give the plot away and tell too much about it. I may do the typical blood dripping from the typography.

Poster 2: This is the second development of my film poster, this one is a lot better than the previous one as the blood splatter is bigger and gives more meaning. It also makes the typography stand out more, but i'm still unsure of the typography, i may create my own typography as i may be able to relate it to the film's genre and plot.

Poster 3: This is the third poster i designed. I feel this is more successful than the previous 3 and that it's slowly looking more like a film poster as i go along and change certain areas. i used a layer mask which enabled me to have a black background and use a brush which creates a splat, creating this effective picture, making the photo look distorted. I think this has two possibly meanings of the use. The first one feels as though we are looking from a point of view perspective of the evil characters lurking in the bushes waiting to attack. It also focuses on the facial expression emphasising the fear and horror in her eyes, also where she is looking we can not see, so we can not see what is after her which is effective as it doesnt give what s coming after her away.

The use of the gentle red smoke coming over the typography creates a sophisticated essence of the film, suggesting evil is in the air, and it is not your typical dead, rotting zombie or monster.

Poster 4: The poster is the same but i wanted to see what it would look with different smoke effects, the previous poster looks as though someone is breathing out the smoke as though their breathe is made up of evil. The smoke on this poster looks as though its about to take over someone or its lingering in the air, giving the sense that the atmosphere is deadly.

Poster 5: With this poster i tried to combined with what i did with the other posters in one. Compared to a normal film poster, i feel there is far too much colour, which isn't giving a scary vibe from the poster.

I will try taking other photo's which has something to do with the film, that doesnt involve too much colour.