Book cover (overlord) research

1. Book Cover (OVERLORD)
Research

2. Imperial War Museum
Photographs
(Secondary Research)

6. Book Cover Versions

7. My Own Photographs (Primary Research)

8. My Own Photographs

9. Book Cover Version 1
This is my first version of my book cover, I think this
is a good version of my potential book cover aas I
like the poppy shape and how it works with the
images in the background. The grey and dark
background really brings out the red title which
makes it reasonably easy to read. However at the
same time the text is too bright. To get this image I
combined images together and drew a shape of a
poppy on top. I then used the trace and embed
option to get rid of the colours and some parts of
the image, doing that brought me the black and
white effect of the images with the poppy and then I
only added in the grey background.

10. Book Cover Version 2 Filter Testing (Photo shoot
image)
These filters are all good filters for my book cover
as they really bring the image out and give it a old
look. The filter that I like the most is the one on the
bottom left, as the darkness around the edges and
brightness around the people in the image, make it
look like it is a dark memory from the past that is
trying to be forgotten but can’t be.

11. Book Cover 2 (Photo shoot image)
This is a good book cover as the design of it
works really well to what the book is about. I
filtered the image out and made the edges and
spaces in between is blacked out and the people
in the image are bright. This works really well
because it acts almost as a dark memory that is
trying to be forgotten by someone but it can’t be
forgotten. I used a bullet font for the title to reflect
the idea of weapons and war. For the author font I
also used a bullet font but this time it went
through the name of the author which is reflecting
that people were shot in the D-Day landings and
died.

12. Book Cover Version 3
To do this book cover I used a dark background
which looks like the sky at night when its misty. The
plane and bomb silhouette really works with the
background, also I decided to add in the name of the
book to the bombs so the letters look like dropping
bombs themselves which reflects the theme of war.
The dark and wet look to the book cover reflects the
dark time during the war and also the appalling
conditions that took place in the war.

13. Final Book Cover
I have decided to use this as my final book cover
because of the way it presents itself. I like how the
darkness and brightness contrast each other and make
the image look like a dark memory from the past trying
to be forgotten but can’t be forgotten. I also like the type
of type I have used in the form of bullet holes for my
text. This relates to the theme of war and violence as
weapons were used in wars and soldiers were killed
which links to the idea of that period of time as a dark
memory ex soldiers would want to forget.