EvaluationIqraa Baig

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Original book cover

My Photography

My photography

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

Final

Design

ThemeThe book I chose to re-design is Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the chocolate factory. To link to the theme I took several photograph of sweets and then used photoshop to saturate the colours of the sweet. The colour of the candy stands out as i have used eye catching colours also the title colour blend in well with the busy background.When taking the photo i tried many style of taking such as birds eye view or at an angle, My final photo i chose was the one on an angel because it makes it different.

Different font used

For the Title i used a San serif font ‘Goudy old style” because it’s easy to read also i masked an image into the font so it looks interesting.

For the back I used the font ‘Poplar std black’ Which stands out as it is very noticeable as well as the synopsis.

The author name on the front and spine is the font ‘Goudy old style’ to keep it formal and it fits perfectly with the background

For the books information i used a formal font ‘baskerville old face’

contextual influences

I think the original book cover is effective because the title name is ‘Charlie and the chocolate factory’ and on the front cover they have used a chocolate factory however what i don’t find effective is the way the author name is bigger than the title. What influence me was the main events that happened in the book such as the chocolate bar and gold ticket also in the planning i drew a few more events such as the elevator and the Umpa Lumpas.

Book design I drew out different

front covers related to Charlie and chocolate factory. I chose my favourite one which was the chocolate bar then used illustrator to do different versions.

I chose the chocolate bar front cover because it was the main object of the story. First i used my own photo as the background and drew a chocolate bar placing the title name on the bar. I changed the background again to sweets photography i’ve taken and kept the chocolate bar and made it look as it’s been ripped through the cover. My final cover i changed altogether as i thought there was too much going on, so i kept it simple.Using one of the sweet photography i zoomed in and used photoshop to saturate the colours to make the front cover eye catching, i put the title in the top middle center so it’s easier to read.

Summary

I chose this as my final design because the original book has a bold background and instead of a plain one i used a photo and used eye catching colours.Instead of going with the title name hence the chocolate factory i decided to take it next step further and show what the chocolate factory contains which is surprisingly sweets instead of chocolate. The original front cover has the author name written in big and the title name small, I decided to keep it all one size. The typefaces i have used are both sans serif and serif. In the letters i have small picture of sweets stretched into it which makes the font unique.The front cover makes the audience want to pick it up and read the back to see what actually is happening in this book and what is it about.