Think about light source and shadows please. If you want to fit an object into a photo, how the object is lit has to match the photo. In this case the light is coming from above. If you fix that and make the text more readable, this might make a decent cover.
Yes, absolutely. I never took graphic design, but I did take a drawing class as well as an elements of art class in college, and we discussed how important this is.
Waffles
10 years ago
They are making it sound like everything was just dandy at Jurassic Park, but the people there… didn’t have a very good time either!
Lucie Le Blanc
10 years ago
Is that… a plane at the top of the cover? Yes, I believe it’s a tiny tiny plane.
Another case of “this is a good background that would have been better left alone”. And I can’t read the text. At all.
AJ
10 years ago
I really like how the tense shifts halfway through the blurb.
Given the title and the dinosaur, I thought that was a Jurassic mosquito at the top. Without the dinosaur, and if the plane were big enough to identify as a plane, it would have been a decent cover.
“…and for them this would be no theme park.” So do they crash at a theme park? Because I’m taking that sentence to mean that for other people it was a theme park. Complete with a dinosaur fit for a ride at Universal Studios.
I agree. Should’ve left the blurb off of the cover too. Why do people keep putting blurbs on the front cover? They can’t be read at thumbnail size. The only page large enough to read it is on the product page, where the blurb can be read in text anyway.
I can’t resist pulling out my geek card here – I think that, in the episode you are thinking of, the plane didn’t actually crash or even land in a dinosaur-infested area. The plane got caught in one heck of a jet stream that sent them back in time. With barely enough fuel left, they were able to find the jet/time stream a second time and flew back to present day.
I didn’t google this, so I could be completely wrong. If so, I will turn in my geek card once my membership expires next March 14.
No, you’re right. They just looked out through the windows and saw all of the dinosaurs.
Also, I didn’t realize that it was March 14th that you got your geek card renewed; I usually renew mine on May 4th. I thought that March 14th was when you get your math nerd card renewed.
Yup. That was the episode. Also the 1938-39 World’s Fair. Pretty cheesy production values. Just the inserts, then cutting to the pilot and crew in the cockpit, which was obviously a set, and didn’t look like a real cockpit at all.
The thing about Twilight Zone was that it was the writing that mattered. Only one thing was more important, and could trump poor writing – a great idea. But generally each episode had both of these (great ideas and writing) in good measure.
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Think about light source and shadows please. If you want to fit an object into a photo, how the object is lit has to match the photo. In this case the light is coming from above. If you fix that and make the text more readable, this might make a decent cover.
Yes, absolutely. I never took graphic design, but I did take a drawing class as well as an elements of art class in college, and we discussed how important this is.
They are making it sound like everything was just dandy at Jurassic Park, but the people there… didn’t have a very good time either!
Is that… a plane at the top of the cover? Yes, I believe it’s a tiny tiny plane.
Another case of “this is a good background that would have been better left alone”. And I can’t read the text. At all.
I really like how the tense shifts halfway through the blurb.
You can READ the blurb???
Given the title and the dinosaur, I thought that was a Jurassic mosquito at the top. Without the dinosaur, and if the plane were big enough to identify as a plane, it would have been a decent cover.
“…and for them this would be no theme park.” So do they crash at a theme park? Because I’m taking that sentence to mean that for other people it was a theme park. Complete with a dinosaur fit for a ride at Universal Studios.
I’m pretty sure that this dinosaur image is copyrighted. But I could be wrong.
I agree. Should’ve left the blurb off of the cover too. Why do people keep putting blurbs on the front cover? They can’t be read at thumbnail size. The only page large enough to read it is on the product page, where the blurb can be read in text anyway.
De plane! De plane! I think the dinosaur ate Fantasy Island.
Oye! Sirona! You’re a genius – our next Reality series: 3 honeymoon couples. Secluded Island. Dinosaurs.
I’ll get the Genetics boys right on it.
Ooh. And people get voted off by being eaten.
I’ll be quoting you on that genius thing. 😉
Uh, wasn’t there a Twilight Zone episode with this premise?
Still remember the Gumby animation brontosaur looking up at the 707 as it flew by.
I can’t resist pulling out my geek card here – I think that, in the episode you are thinking of, the plane didn’t actually crash or even land in a dinosaur-infested area. The plane got caught in one heck of a jet stream that sent them back in time. With barely enough fuel left, they were able to find the jet/time stream a second time and flew back to present day.
I didn’t google this, so I could be completely wrong. If so, I will turn in my geek card once my membership expires next March 14.
No, you’re right. They just looked out through the windows and saw all of the dinosaurs.
Also, I didn’t realize that it was March 14th that you got your geek card renewed; I usually renew mine on May 4th. I thought that March 14th was when you get your math nerd card renewed.
Mmm. Pi.
“The Odyssey of Flight 33” (Link)
Yup. That was the episode. Also the 1938-39 World’s Fair. Pretty cheesy production values. Just the inserts, then cutting to the pilot and crew in the cockpit, which was obviously a set, and didn’t look like a real cockpit at all.
Not one of the better TZ episodes.
Agreed, but it was 1961 so I give it a pass. They probably blew their entire episode budget on those few seconds of dinosaur stop motion animation. 🙂
The thing about Twilight Zone was that it was the writing that mattered. Only one thing was more important, and could trump poor writing – a great idea. But generally each episode had both of these (great ideas and writing) in good measure.