Here you can see that after presenting the first three approaches to the book cover, it was also suggested that I create another approach, which focuses primarily on an object in relation to the book, rather than a theme. Therefore I decided to create a cover that shows one of the weapons involved in the killings.
To do this, I maintained the style of limited colour and began by making a silhouette style for the object. I also included the use of lines in between text to separate it, similarly to how it had been done in the previous cover.
After more discussion on whether or not these designs would work, it was decided that the previous ideas worked better and therefore they would be used to form the final designs.
Out of all the styles that I had experimented with, it became clear that the newspaper style with the mug shots was the most favoured and successful approach. Therefore, the next step was to try and develop this design so that it would be suitable for the competition in terms of copyright and so that it would have my own original interpretation in it.
From this I began to recreate the third design from the development stage by removing the images and replacing them with silhouettes of the people involved with the book. This way it would be leaving the interpretation of the characters up to the viewer and their imagination. Also by including the mug shot numbers for the killers, rather than their names, implies that their crimes were so severe that they should only be referred to in this way.
The alternative design to this development was to try the same idea, only with the silhouettes replaced with outlines. This way the characters could be seen even more mysterious to the viewer. These final two book cover layouts would be presented to peers during the final critique session, to see which has been more successful at modernising the non-fiction novel.
After receiving the feedback from the session it will be possible to determine a way to further develop the idea for a book cover into a final piece. It will also provide me with a better understanding of how the project could have been improved at certain stages, and what other alternative approaches could have been taken in order to come to a conclusion.
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