OUIL503- In Cold Blood Cover- Cover 2 Initial Ideas

I want to experiment with the use of type again with this cover, so I thought about finding a way to use image within the lettering to crate the text.

I thought about picking out certain letters within the title to be able to work with, and my initial thoughts turned to the 'O's in blood. I thought these would be the easiest to work with and wouldn't need that much manipulation to be able to be used within another image.

I thought about what objects or ideas I could use within these 'O's. So I looked into what objects were used in the crime and possibly the investigation as well. The two main objects that I thought about were the binoculars used to spy on the family and the shotgun used as a murder weapon.

I went on to rough out how these could be used within the words and try to figure out a layout that worked well enough.