Concept Poster

REVISED

CLASHING LIGHT

Clashing -

1) to come together or collide
2) to conflict; disagree

Brawl, battle, conflict, disorder, confusion, disarray, blurring, disturbing, distraction, fluster, obscure, puzzlement, turmoil

Light-

1) something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
2) the state of being visible, exposed to view, or revealed to public notice or knowledge
3) spiritual illumination or awareness

Clear, ablaze, pleasant, fine, undarkened, graceful, faint, hope, faith, promise, aspire, cheer, aspiration, brilliant, vivid, illuminate, gentle

Concept Statement
What are we but humans? does something else in the world exist? everyday we are faced with the ideas of the unknown. Science is constantly searching for the 'truth,' the real and natural and finding hard facts. But what happens in a world where anything is possible. Where time travel may exist. Where we may be able to change mistakes, have a completely different life, or even save ourselves or a loved one from death. But perhaps dying is just another beginning to a life as something much more then just a human.

Audience Persona
Jill is a 20-year-old sophomore attending the University of Kansas. She lives with two other female roommates in a small house on Massachusetts St. Sometimes she feels the need to walk down to south park, Starbucks, or Sylas and Maddy's to enjoy a snack, people watch, and read. Although some would consider her a tom boy because she enjoys going to comic book stores, watching action movies, mostly hangs out with her close guy friends, and is majoring in physics, she still has a girlie side about her. She enjoys hanging out with her roommates, going to see what some might call the 'chick flicks,' reading books along the same route as the Twilight series, and sneaking in the occasional romance novel every now and then. Most of the time she even appreciates shopping!

TONE:
futuristic, hopeful, dark, unknown...these three fictional books are the science fiction, action/romance type that keep you at the edge of your seat.

TO SUGGEST :
- to suggest a feeling of suspense
- to suggest a futuristic world
- to suggest a life full of possibilities
- to suggest nothing stopping love and passion, even through death
- to suggest a sense of overwhelming anxiety
- to suggest adventure
- to suggest push and pull
- to suggest uncertainty
- to suggest technology

Mood Boards

Bookcover Research part2

CONCEPT STATEMENT:
Mystery-Romance
Mystery- any affair, thing, or person that presents features or qualities so obscure as to arouse curiosity or speculation: The masked guest is an absolute mystery to everyone.
Romance - a romantic affair or experience; a love affair.
dark, foggy, unknown, scary, secret, drama, unexplained, alarmed, frightening, chilling, creepy, supernatural, passion, lust, heart, love, relationship, attachment, match, joined

Science Fiction can be brought to life for the female reader with a simple twist and addition of romance, drama, and mystery. Who says science fiction is all for men in comic book stores. It can easily be applied to women with the same interests but that have that small urge for something just a little more.

It seems that these days, women are becoming more and more interested with science fiction, and the media uses this, making more opportunities for it to relate to both genders. When you add in romance and mystery, its sure to keep everyone at the edge of their seats.

Science Fiction novels can generally be applied to only males. But occasionally, females grab these books, looking for a writing a little different from the norm. Books like these can be enjoyed by all, especially when they have that bazaar twist of mystery and romance intertwined into the depths of the book's very binding. These three things come together, forming an unforgettable dark, mysterious, and chilling yet heartfelt stories

What are we but humans? does something else in the world exist? everyday we are faced with the ideas of the unknown. Science is constantly searching for the 'truth,' the real and natural and finding hard facts. But what happens in a world where anything is possible. Where time travel may exist. Where we may be able to change mistakes, have a completely different life, or even save a loved one from death. What if death means nothing at all. What if technology existed where death would lead to a simple procedure of being reborn...but to be reborn as another kind. Perhaps a 'host' spirit of some kind will over take your body. You will still be knowledgeable of all of your actions, but have absolutely no control; sort of like two people inhabiting the same being. Or perhaps doctors will revive you as a machine. You will then be forced to chose between humans and the person you once were and machines such as yourself.

AUDIENCE PERSONA:
Jill is a 20-year-old attending the University of Kansas. She lives with two other female roommates in a small house on Massachusetts St. Sometimes she feels the need to walk down to south park, Starbucks, or Sylas and Maddy's to enjoy a snack, people watch, and read. Although some would consider her a tom boy because she enjoys going to comic book stores, watching action movies, mostly hangs out with her close guy friends, and is majoring in physics, she still has a girlie side about her. She enjoys hanging out with her roommates, going to see what some might call the 'chick flicks,' sneaks in the occasional romance novel every now and then, and absolutely loves shopping...for new sneakers that is.





As of right now I just have these font studies, I still need to work with some more from the approved list. but with these I feel like the ones that work the best are: The middle top (Batik), the bottom middle(Occidental) and the very right second from bottom (Eccentric). I really like these three because they all are very typewriter feeling, giving them the look of 'timelessness.' For my series this will be great cause this can also play along with the serious/romantic sort of mood.

Bookcover Research

DEFINE:

Series- a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence. In a book series it’s a continuing storyline.

Sequence- the following of one thing after another; succession. The sequence would be the order in which the books occur in the series.

DEFINE AND GIVE A VISUAL AND VERBAL EXAMPLE:

Sign-society follows two types of signs, natural and conventional. Natural for example would be humans wearing warmer clothes in the winter. Conventional would be the type of clothes we wear and how we wear them. It depends on society’s ‘rules.’ for example, because high-heels are not something we would typically wear all the time they have a conventional as sexual symbols in western society. Symbols can be seen everywhere. One example from the reading was a picture of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden they apple they hold represents the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Another would be Braille signifies someone’s lack of sight.



Index- index in a book would be the chapter, title, and the page the chapter starts on
Symbol-something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. For example, seeing three arrows in this position, we can automatically recognize it as recycling without any words at all.

What makes a successful book jacket? Include at least 5 images.
It is debatable what makes a book jacket successful. In the two articles I read about this they both basically said that the cover will “convey the essence of the book in a unique and surprising way that maybe pushes the design envelope a bit.” The cover is to help the book make a good impression because as humans we do judge books by their covers.

this cover, I believe, works really well because the image is so eye catching and has great light and dark contrast. it keeps you interested and looks mysterious.
I feel that viewers connect better with abstract concepts. Things that keep them guessing as to what the book is about while going along with the theme. when book jackets get too personal and have specific people on them, it gets harder to relate. These keep this impersonal sense about them.


3 BOOKS:

I picked these three books because they all had some things in common. They are all very futuristic. There is a unique syfy/romance type twist to each.

Crashed by Robin Wasserman

ABOUT BOOK : Before the accident, Lia Kahn was happy.
Before the accident, Lia Kahn was loved.
Before, Lia was a lot of things: Normal. Alive. Human.
Lia no longer lives in before. Six months after the crash that killed her, six months after being reborn, Lia has finally accepted her new reality. She is a machine, a mech, and she belongs with her own kind. It’s a wild, carefree life, without rules and without fear. Because there’s nothing to fear when you have nothing left to lose.
But when a voice from her past cries out for revenge, everything changes. Lia is forced to choose: between her old life and her new one. Between humans and mechs. Between sacrificing the girl she used to be and saving the boy she used to love.
Even if it means he’ll hate her forever.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Robin Wasserman (born May 31, 1978) is an American young adult novelist. In addition to other books, she is the author of the Seven Deadly Sins series from Simon & Schuster, featuring seven morally bankrupt teenagers in a small California town. Each novel revolves around one of the sins, and each character's transgressions specific to that sin. Which follow the lives of Harper, Beth, Adam, Kane, Miranda, Reed, Kaia, and their French teacher, Jack Powell.
Wasserman grew up outside of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard University and UCLA. Before she was an author she was an associate editor at a children's book publisher. She is currently living in Brooklyn, New York.

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

ABOUT BOOK : Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.
When Melanie, one of the few remaining "wild" humans is captured, she is certain it is her end. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
Wanderer probes Melanie's thoughts, hoping to discover the whereabouts of the remaining human resistance. Instead, Melanie fills Wanderer's mind with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she has been tasked with exposing. When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in English. She lives with her husband and three young sons in Phoenix, Arizona. After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly).

Timecross’d: A love Story Out of Time by Sean K. ThompsonABOUT BOOK : Dr. Abigail Ross is a woman with a problem. She’s invented the Loop, a machine capable of sending people through time, yet she’s the last person in the world you’d want to have access to all of history. An abusive father and murderous mother have left her a headstrong alcoholic, emotionally inaccessible, and completely incapable of love. Pity no one bothered telling that to her partner Zachary Walker, the timid history professor who has inadvertently fallen head over heels for her.

Too little too late, Abby discovers true love. But, with the typical bad timing of this pair of timecross’d lovers, the Loop is stolen, Zachary is killed and Abby finds herself in a strange new world where she is a second-rate technician and engaged to a guy named Paris. But Zach’s death is only the beginning of their love; and adventures. Can Abby overcome skewed realities, alternate timelines, her inner demons and a godlike Storyteller to once again cross paths with her soulmate?
Award-winning playwright Sean K. Thompson has created a thrilling new novel based on his successful stage play. Hundreds of theatergoers saw the story live on stage. Now, new worlds-literal and figurative-are opened to a whole new audience with this novel.
Timecross’d: Your typical tale where boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl loses boy, girl finds boy, boy dies, and then the real fun begins.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Sean K. Thompson was born in 1965 on an Air Force base in Austin, Texas. Before his first birthday he had relocated to San Diego, California as the son of a United States naval officer. In the early 1970s he moved to Yokosuka, Japan, and a few years later made his way to Portsmouth, England, being the first American to go to the vanguard school there in its 250-year-plus history. In the early 1980s he returned to Texas, where he put down roots in Houston and did his four-year stint at the University of St. Thomas before starting his family. He currently resides in Houston with his teenaged son and toddler daughter.
When he was six years old, Sean picked up a copy of Madeline L.Engle.s A Wrinkle in Time. By the time he had finished reading it he knew he wanted to become a writer. In 1979 in England, he won the coveted Leonardo da Vinci Award for his first short story, Starfire VI. Sean also wrote Calling Metropolis, which was produced in 1995 when it won the Fort Bend Theatre.s Members. Choice Award. Two years later he finished his next dramatic stage play, Timecross.d, where it was produced at Masquerade Theatre and The Country Playhouse in Houston.
Soon after, Sean was persuaded to adapt Timecross'd to novel form. Despite the difficulties of transforming a stage play into book form, he set about the task. In the script-to-book transformation, new heights and depths of the story emerged, culminating in this novel.
Sean's most recent screenplay, Jack Everyman, has begun filming for a Summer 2005 release with ZakCom Entertainment Productions. When not raising his children, he is hard at work on two new book projects, including the sequel to Timecross'd. In rare free moments, he acts in, plays music in, directs, produces, and writes for local theatre. He is also the Founder of the Houston Underground Players, a variety revue troupe.

ASSOCIATED WORD LIST :

Caliginous - dim, dark,misty
obscure
Anonymous
Puzzling
Mysterious
Spiritual - religious, otherworldly
Ethereal
Secret
Secluded
Hidden
Truth
Sharp
Chilling
Alarming
Eerie - uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
Broken
Weakness
Loyalty
Irresolute-not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating.
Angst- the feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish
Passion - strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor.
Agony
Devotion- profound dedication and loyalty
Neglect
Death
End
Edge
Boundary
Portal
Passage
Revival - restoration to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, etc.
Awakening
Restoration
Alteration
Adaptation - the state of being adapted; adjustment.
Adjustment
Alien
Foreign
Extrinsic- not essential or inherent; not a basic part or quality; extraneous: facts that are extrinsic to the matter under discussion.
Outer
Conflict
Oppose
Prevent
Distinctive
Abstract
Deep
Complex
Difficult
Friction
Immense

TONE:
eerie, angst, passion, love, futuristic

TO SUGGEST :
- a feeling of suspense
- a futuristic world
- full of possibilities
- love and passion
- a sense of overwhelming anxiety
- an adventure

10 QOUTES/PHRASES/POEMS that help describe these books :

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland

"you can shed tears that she is gone,
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her only that she is gone,
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she'd want:
smile,open your eyes, love and go on."
- David Harkins

"The true mystery of the world is visible, not invisible" - Oscar Wilde

"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple" - Oscar Wilde

"Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player" - Albert Einstein

"It Could Be that the Purpose of Your Life is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others." - Unknown

No Self :

Think of the phoenix coming up out of the ashes, but not flying off.
For a moment we have form.
How can we be conscious and you be conscious at the same time and separate?
Copper when an alchemist works on it loses it copper qualities. Seeds in Spring begin to be trees, no longer seeds....
It’s not that I’ve done anything to deserve this attention from you.
Predestination and freewill: We can
argue them, but they are only ideas. What’s real is a presence, like Shams.

Open Secret
Moyne & Barks, tr

The Listeners - a poem by Walter de la Mere

'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:-
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

Losing Yet Again - By Unknown
Love in my life is like sand,
I give it care and attention,
Then a strong gust of wind sifts it through my hand,
I lose yet again.