Saturday, 28 December 2013

Mockups So far

In that past week I've been working on some final mockups and adding those finishing touches! I couldn't come down on an one idea, whether to have the Church on the front cover in a silhouette or the city, so I did both!
As you can see in this screenshot, the church works well at first glance but the more you look at it the more it just becomes a tower, with a triangle roof next to it, this along with the fact that it possibly gives too much about the story away, or focuses on the wrong part is why I decided to do multiple book covers and submit them both for marking! In terms of the sky colour I thought that it worked well at the top however when the orange clashes with the yellow highlight on the church it doesn't do it justice and you fail to see the contrast that I was trying to display.
In this screenshot of the tower version of my Finals/Mockups you can see that the clear cut tower structures with the red sky against the yellow glow from the moon works really well and helps create that urban feel I was looking for. I also think that the red doesn't clash with any of the other colours on the page, for example on the back of the book where the last paragraph is all in yellow, against the orange on the church version it can be quite difficult to read. However I did feel that one residing positive from both of these was the back cover with the small scale buildings that were nothing too fancy.

When looking at the accuracy and relevance of both book covers, the church does have more story relevance and possibly makes it more appealing to a second time reader, however the city landscape in the distance create the 'outsider' feel more, it also plays on the isolation and acceptance theme running throughout the book rather than the church which is set almost as if your standing beneath it, part of the village, and not an outsider.

As you can see I'm very undecided and I am planning on submitting both to see what happens!

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