Short Film Poster Idea for 'The Set-Up'

After the research that me and my partner had done for our film poster, we set out looking for ideas for a focal point. After previously deciding that dark colours and a brighter red would be good for displaying the horror theme through the front cover, we also used white for text allowing the text to be seen on the darker background. Conventions of a film poster were used which we found on posters through research including credits, age rating, the date of release, a tag line and the title, not forgetting the main image indicating the plot of the film.

The image displays the end of one of the final scenes whereby the protagonist is grabbed from behind by a gloved mystery figure unaware that he will shortly be presented with a 'Surprise' party. This original sketch of the poster displayed a medium shot and an outline of the mystery figure. We felt that this close up shot would build more suspicion as to the events of the film and the close up on his face allows us to see the fear in his eyes and his general facial expression.  This ideal poster has been created combining some of our original sketch elements this with real horror posters i have researched of accredited films from the last five years (recent).