My Design
This is The Girl in the Mirror design with the girl finally finished and scanned in and the mirror scanned in, made symmetrical and then coloured up brightly with shading added in areas to make it stand out more and make it bold. I decided upon bright and bold colours for the mirror so that it stands out but also so that it looks like something in which a child would happily hold. However she is left in a black and white colour scale for she is undergoing a bumpy road in the book and this shows the colour that a child should have in their life against the colour in which she has in her life.
Symbolism is very important when it comes to making a literal cover, this design is very literal to the cover name The Girl in the Mirror because there is a mirror in which the girl is in and also the mirror is surrounding by a beautiful symmetrical pattern, everything on this pattern is to symbolise the things that girls should like at that age and the colour symbolises the colour and happiness within a child's life. Her past being dark means that she is in black and white to express emotion, emotion in which is also seen in her eyes.
This design came out well but for improvement a background needs to be added of which could be a pattern, colour or even words that could be going through the girls mind while she goes through this trauma.
Below is the brief summary of the book:
When Mandy, 23, learns her much-loved Grandpa is dying, she readily agrees to stay at her aunt's house to help nurse him. Although the journey to her aunt's is familiar, from all her visits as a child, when Mandy arrives she finds she can't remember any of the house. Her mind has completely blanked it out.
Mandy begins to experience strange and disturbing flashbacks and starts to delve beneath the surface of her respectable family to try and find out what happened. What she discovers is so shocking that she understands why it has never been spoken of, and why it lay buried in her sub-conscious for all those years
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