Value: Album Cover

For this assignment, I created an album cover for the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (score by Wendy Carlos). The music in this soundtrack is mainly electronic classical music, i.e. classical pieces performed with both traditional instruments as well as electronica such as synthesizers. This style was pioneered by Wendy Carlos (originally Walter Carlos).

The album cover uses both color and value as key components in its composition. The emphasis is created because of the chiarscuro on Alex's face. The viewer's eye is drawn to this area because of contrasting values and subtle gradations from light to dark, as well as the contrasting nature of this area to the rest of the cover, where value plays a smaller role. Other areas are flattened by the use of planes of color (or black) to describe the forms of the women's bodies, instead of the three-dimentional chiaroscuro of Alex's face.