Below is the design of the cover which was a mock up that i showed in my presentation, and is originally the design i was going to go for at the time, but since a few people said they preferred my other design with the broken bottle and blood i decided to rethink what design i was going to go for.
The week presenting my pitch to the class, at the weekend i decided to experiment and improve my design a lot more with the patterns as i was still strong about this idea slightly more than the other one, even though a few people liked the other design a bit more. Below is an example of the improvement at the time. From the previous mock up i showed in my presentation, i added a few things as well as got rid or changed a few things.
Firstly i re did the paper and used a better tool to get a more torn look to it which was the wrinkle tool and it helps to give this type of effect to objects. I decided to get rid of the lines within the paper because i didn't want the design to look too complicated and too overpowering against the type of the cover and the blurb on the back cover.
Something i also improved on was the blurb in the back, i decided to separate the quote and main blurb apart so it didn't look to closed in and hard to read. I also used a drop cap as it gives interest to the blurb making it less intimidating to read and looking more inviting. I also used read within some of the blurb to highlight key parts of the story to also give more of an readable and legible blurb for the back cover.
I also added some extra imagery on the cover with blood on the paper to add to that rebellious, gang crime feeling from the story so if it were in a store it would be even more obvious what type of book it would be. I did this with the front and back cover and not much so its not to overwhelming and overused.
The Tuesday the following week i showed a teacher of mine the improvements i made and telling him i really wanted to go for this idea rather than the broken bottle idea as i felt more confident and stronger about this idea and told him overall it looks more interesting and visually pleasing in comparison to the other one.
After agreeing with me and saying he liked the idea with the patterns a lot as well and i should just go for this idea and do what i feel is best it made me feel more confident that the idea was better and that in the end it would look a lot better than the other idea people wanted me to go for. My teacher did suggest instead of having paper look like its attached to the cover to have it look like the cover has been torn into so you can see the paper from the inside of the book, giving a cool little quirk and interesting design idea and a somewhat of an illusion with the design.
This concept would make more of a better design and did make re think slightly the design it would look like, still having the main idea there but changing it slightly, but making it overall look more impressive and a better idea and a better design.
Currently now this is what my final book cover design looks like and I am very proud of the way it looks and how far its come from the mock up. As you can see many aspects of my design have changed from the mock up i originally made. I took my teachers words on board about making the cover itself look like its been torn and creating this illusion with little additions to help emphasise the cover being torn into. This idea helps to show the rebellious side to the story giving more of a sense of rebellion and crime, without it being o gory or too complex and graphic for a teenager.So I'm very happy with the final outcome of the design.
One of the aspects that helps to emphasise the torn cover is having it torn right from the edge of the cover and have it torn in a a messy way along with the torn part scrolled up giving a realistic and more convincing torn cover.
Again here is another torn part and i decided to use this concept a lot more in a convincing way by using it for a lot of the info parts of the book cover and did it in a non structured way so it does look fake which is why the text is at an angle shown above and why the torn part is at an angle. When tearing paper or card its not ever perfect and straight which is why in the cover i angled the torn parts slightly making it look like it is actual been torn from the cover.
Here is the back of the cover with the blurb, now i did changed a few things i.e. tracking some of the text to look more legible and readable, again i angled the torn pieces slightly to look more realistic. I also used the idea of the blood and added extra drops of blood on other parts of the paper.
Also something i'd like to point out is i used an inner glow on the paper part to look more realistic as if the cover of the book has been torn into and that you can see inside the book with the paper. Something else i did was actually using a bit map image texture of paper and clipped masked it against the torn shaping of the paper to look more like paper inside the cover and to look more visually pleasing.
Overall this is what my design looks like now, i still was able to use the paper idea but in a different way and overall it looks like a better design now, and the patterned images are still used to great effect as the torn cover isn't too overwhelming that you can't notice the patterns, and the overall impression you get from this would be a rebellious type of teenage gang themed book which is attractive with colours and design that teenager and adults would both be keen on buying it and want to read the book after noticing it in a store in comparison to other books.
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