Ranking:

we were given our brief on illustrating a interesting book cover for our chosen book. I was delighted at this because the book cover for 'No time for goodbye' is so misleading and boring. When i was given this book by my mum a few months back i didnt expect it to be so bloody and so fictional. My interpretation from looking at the cover of this book was a story that was sad. Little did i know how twisted it would get.
The writer is very talented in the way he captures the suspense and mystery in this book. This book was in no way predictable. From the heading 'NO TIME FOR GOODBYE' i visualised many images in my head.  I decided on three very relevant images for this book cover , that involved an egg timer , a clock with no hands (that i found in my home town) and a grave stone.

These were the images i chose. I felt the egg timer and the clock with no hands was the strongest to work with. I decided to fill the egg timer with red like blood to indicate that the characters in this book were working against time. However they never seemed to make it in time and blood was always spilt  similar to the blood being spilt into the egg timer.  I decided to improve on the idea of the clock with no hands by adding a knife and blood to show how time is against them .. 'time is bleeding'.  I like this idea because unlike the original book cover it shows the viewer exactly what they want . This is the blood and violence, which is all associated with the idea of a thriller.  Theres no sutlety to my book cover it shows the reader exactly what they are looking for.