final little white lies cover evaluation
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Portraiture & Likeness
The likeness is strong and you can clearly see it’s the character. The face structure and propor7ons are right and the bone structure looks good. The best parts are the eyes and the cheekbones, as I think they’re really the key to the likeness and are the parts I worked hardest to get right.
One issue is that I think my portrait makes her face slightly thinner and less round. The lips a 7ghter then her actual lips, and don’t reach the same width. The jaw line is also slightly more angular then her face, and the 7p of the jaw more pronounced. This makes my portrait ever so slightly more pinched and sharp then her actual face.
I also think the nose doesn’t quite work. I don’t think I got the shading right and so it doesn't liB up and seems a too flat.
Composi2on
I like the contrast between the two sides in composi7on, as it draws the eye. The way one half is more based on the orange light, and the other built around the star graphics.
The upper leB hand side looks a bit empty. I’m not sure weather it works or not, on the one hand it works contras7ng the busy right side and leaving some breathing room, and the rendering of the clouds keeps it interes7ng so it’s not totally empty. On the other hand it does draw the eye a bit as the only area of the cover without a dis7nct image.
I’m not en7rely happy with the posi7oning of the font. Whilst it looks nice centered, and somewhat epic due to the fact that most movie posters or books will center the text, it might be beFer placed up in the leB in that empty zone. However up in the leB it could throw off the composi7on of the contras7ng sides, as well as clash with the logo.
Typography
The font is Trajan Pro, and I think it works well; it fits in with the cold and elegant and mys7c design of the cover. The tracking is quite 7ght, with all the leFers quite close together. Whilst I think that works with the font, I should have experimented a bit more, as I now wonder if more spaced out tracking might suit the open and mys7c night sky concept.
Strengths and Weaknesses Evaluation
The leading could also do with improvement as the top line is close to the second, but the third line has more spacing, making it look like it’s driBing. The way it has different leading from the top line breaks symmetry and basic consistency and is quite off puMng to look at. This is the main thing about the typography I would want to change.
I think I should have made it blend a bit more, making it slightly transparent like the lines of the images in the stars, or making the colour bluer. I tried to make the font prominent with the colour and the tracking, but now I think this was a bit of mistake. Looking at other LWL covers the issue 7tle can some7mes be very integrated and some7mes even quite hidden, like on the ‘Shame’ cover. I think I made it to bold and obvious.
Colour
The colours fit well blue and orange being complimentary colours. They work together as well as contras7ng; a look of hot and cold bouncing off each other that makes the cover pop and draws the eye. The blue and orange colour scheme 7es in with the consistent colour scheme for the Hunger games; a warm burnt orange, with a cold metallic blue. The warm glow also slightly evokes fire.
The colours really 7e in with both the 'Catching Fire' film and the concept of the cover. The image is based on the more mythic
nature of the Hunger Games, mainly with parallels that can be drawn with the Greek Goddess Artemis, and the way the character of Katniss becomes a sort of legendary figure in the story. So I think the colours very nicely use both magical images of Greek myth I found as inspira7on, as well as the colours of the film.
The orange could be more integrated into the cover. It's not quite clear that the moon is the source of light, as the moon it's self is quite dark with no outer glow. Brightening up the moon would have helped colour as well as composi7on, as it would have been a pure orange center, with the glow coming off of it into the rest of the image. It could also be a bit stronger in the clouds. I tried to dim the orange in the background to accentuate the face, however it might liB it off the background just a bit too much. I struggled with weather to make the orange really bold and contras7ng, or soBer and more blended. This middle ground I ended up with looks a bit too muddled and murky.
Strengths and Weaknesses Evaluation