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[weyn]

After my Rear Window cover I rewatched some old Hitchcock flicks and wanted to keep the creative flow going

I'm kicking off this thread with North by Northwest. The next one will probably be Psycho just to be in time for the 60th Anniversary Edition release next month, eventually followed by The Man Who Knew Too Much.



Note that the current state of the front key art is intermediate at best but you get a general idea of the layout. In particular I'm wondering if the TT works like that.

This post has been edited by weyn: Aug 29 2020, 01:46 AM

[Paris]

nice start!
- there's no character my eye really settles on- too many different eye lines from actors and monuments. Change Cary Grant's eyes to be looking at the camera to give the viewer some stability in what could be a busy image

- There's way too much going on in the composition - a lot of good pieces, but too much together. Simplify with depth of field - blur out the background, and maybe find a different image of the monuments for a clearer, wider image - feels like clip art with the sharp details? Blur with depth of field should help. Remove the guys on the top of Jefferson, and maybe find a different way to put in the plane? it's not flowing with the composition atm

- Also I think what could help unify the cover is lighting? The light on the fg and bg are both very neutral, and it's not reading as "night" to me, seems uncanny. There's an amazing Casablanca cover in the HRC that has great use of colored rim light. I think blue rim light and warm key lights would be the way to go to sell night and bring these images together?