Experimental film poster

Before i made my final film poster, i spent some time on this experimental one. I originally wanted to go for a wide shot that revealed lots of hints towards the themes in the film as i was inspired by 'The Woman In Black' film poster where there is a grave and a cloaked woman in the background, as well as a haunted-looking house shrouded in fog.

I put the young girl in the middle to show she is a main character and in the water there is a faint reflection of a ghost girl which audiences could have presumed meant she would die or is somehow connected to the ghost. To the right there is a man lurking, slightly back from the front of the image which could connote the idea that he is mysterious maybe dangerous or maybe a victim. I put the cross, to the left, in line with him as he is a murderer and he also eventually dies, but i made sure i darkened the cross so audiences would have to look a little harder at the poster in order to see everything. The background speaks for itself; a dark marsh-like forest (the setting to our film) and is also a typical setting of the horror genre. Finally, i made the title and tagline in a scratched red font so that it looks a little like blood running down the letters.

However, i didn't think it was very well put together; it all looked a little messy. Not to mention the fact that neither of the characters on the poster are actually in our film; we hadn't taken the photos for the poster or magazine at this point. The colour of the background also made it tricky to put the other pictures in and adjust them so that they looked realistic (the girl in the middle is too light, yet it looks wrong if she is darkened any more as she fades into the background). While i like the font and the position of the text, it just didn't go with the feeling of the poster, and i also hadn't put any of the producers/actors names etc.