I created a mood board of objects because these will be really helpful when designing my cover. I can look at these to help with shapes and with making smaller graphics within the cover. I chose the most well known objects as I want people to see the cover and immediately associate it with the book.
Next I created a mood board of settings and this will be helpful if I want a certain scene on the front of the book or if the cover needs a background image on it. These are also helpful to see the mood and atmosphere in the book.
I then created a mood board of characters and chose some main and some supporting characters which are all associated with the book. These images will be helpful for me to look at when designing because they will be the base for my take on the characters.
Next I created a mood board of the colour scheme of the book and these will be the sorts of colours most likely to appear on my cover. These were all taken from the images I found previously so I know that all of them relate to the book in some way e.g. the blue of Alice's dress and the pink of the Cheshire cats fur.
Then I created a mood board of typography to give me inspiration for fonts to use for the title. I focused on script style type because this is the style that suits the book the best as it is a fairytale and is also quite an old book and this is the style of the type that was common at that time. This will be helpful to look at when designing my main title because most of the fonts I chose are quite decorative so would suit a main title.
Lastly I made a style mood board with images that represent the sort of style I want to design my book cover in. Again I chose these images as most of them reminded me of something I would expect to see in a fairytale style book. This will be helpful for me to look at when designing the layout of the front cover and the style of the graphics.
