New Ideas For Book Cover.

The extracts that i have from the book confused me at first, they sound like different books. I then broke them down into sentences and words to see if I could find anything that would give me an idea for the cover. These are some parts of the extracts I picked out, that i could work on.

- bread

- my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression

- a good book

- sat in his hut

- nature

- writing table

- snuff box

- tooth in the corner of my jaw with a lump of crust

- prongs of his fork

- chewing

- i work in my bedroom

- propped by pillows in his bed in the white light of a incandescent petrol lamp

- pimples in his forehead

- pencil moved slowly across the ruled paper

- heavy smoker

- red swan hotel

- leap have i leaped from hill to hill

- hag

- leap

- skylight of the hostel

- a tall ivy-branch

- trees and the stags

- leafy-oak, clumpy-leaved

- the nut-smell of hazels

- faun, little long legs

- life looks black as the hour of night

- a pint of plain

- horse has also ran

- health is bad, ace is pale

- food is scarce, hunger grows

- you still can turn to a brighter life

I have had another idea for this book cover as my last ones were not that great. It is based on the author FlannO'Brien who seems to drink and sleep a lot. My idea came from the extracts: 'i work in my bedroom' and 'propped by pillows in his bed in the white light of a incandescent petrol lamp'. My idea is to take some photos in a bedroom with the bed in the bottom right corner so that there is a plain wall where the text can go, so it is easily seen. On the bed I will place a book and a pen on the pillow and some bottle of alcohol maybe in the bed with the covers slightly hiding it like it is kept there or I might place it propped up against the pillow so it is more visible. Also I thought I could have someone lying in the bed asleep clutching the bottle and the book slipping away. I will try both of these ideas and take lots of photos from different angles to see the which looks the best. For my lighting I will use the big light and also take the same shots with just a lamp to see the atmosphere, as well i could place the lamp in different places to see what looked visually the best.