We really liked the idea of the main character trapped between the drowning in the past and the danger of the future, and thought it was effective to use the shot of her turning away from the past to face the unseen danger approaching her. However, we had ruled out the idea of using the shot of the drowning scene as it might just give a little bit too much away. We wanted to hint at the drowning though, so we used a photo of Ellie's face (the young version of our main character, Lucy) and used a photo of a puddle to overlay and make transparent so that there is an impression of drwoning without this being made explicit. We like the connection this creates between the older and younger versions of Lucy and we think this is a subtle hint that will be appreciated more when the poster is reviewed in the light of having seen the film. We also think this will make quite a simple and classy poster. You can see that we have extracted the image of Lucy much more accurately and combined the burn and blur tools to blend her with the background. We have also extracted Ellie's face, resized it and added the overlay of the puddle and reduced its transparency to create a ripple of water over her face. Their startled expressions match well.
We were not sure the colour was effective enough so we added a blue colour overlay and reduced the opacity of the Ellie layer to give her an almost ghost-like effect. We feel this works really well and is creating a distinctive colour palette for our product, which is added to by the bright red of the title. This operates like a kind of visual startle, which fits well with our genre. We have also started to add some of the formal elements such as the required billing block.
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