"The book tells the story of the murder of the Clutter family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clutter and their two teenage children, Kenyon and Nancy (two older daughters were grown and out of the house), and the events that lead the killers to murder. The family was living in Holcomb, Kansas, and in November 1959, they were brutally killed, with no apparent motive, by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. The family was discovered bound and shot to death, with only small items missing from the home. Capote read about the crime in The New York Times soon after it happened, and before the killers were caught, he began his work in Kansas, interviewing the people of Holcomb and doing extensive research with the help of his friend Harper Lee."
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/i/in-cold-blood/book-summary
To start my research for designing this book cover i decided that i needed to have a clear idea of what the book was about seen as i had not previously read the book, To find out what the book was about i read a summary of the book on cliff notes. This told me that the book was about a multiple murder of a family done by two men who had no previous connection to the family. The family where killed in such a brutal way. After finding out what the book was about i decided that i would look as previous book cover of the book to gain an idea of what worked for the book and how far people have pushed the cover. The use of imagery of the family or the killers was popular and with the use of bold text and the colour red. These were all common design feature of many of the front covers. The more successful cover had large text that created impact, and a bold blood red colour as a representation of the brutal murder. From this research i will use my knowledge of the book to guide my design decisions and also experiment with the key features that made the previous book covers so successful.
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