Week 3 and it’s a space movie for the Cover Makeover Challenge now administered by Julie Powell, photographer and graphic artist. Whether by coincidence or conscious choice, Julie has decided on a film directed by a man many of us will have thought about recently because of losing his father — Duncan Jones, son of the inimitable David Bowie.
The film, Moon, which was made in 2009 and has a staggering eight gold stars on IMDb (very rare, in my experience), stars Sam Rockwell as astronaut Sam Bell who ‘has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems’. I haven’t seen the film yet but it’s on my list.
I have used a photograph of Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon (or in a film studio under the direction of Stanley Kubrick, if you subscribe to the conspiracy theory) from Wikimedia to create my cover. I used our old friend Times Regular as the font for title, star, director, and tag line, and added a bevel & emboss style as if these had been etched on the moon surface. I also blacked out the reflection on Aldrin’s helmet. We wouldn’t want to be able to see Kubrick’s reflection, now would we!
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Take care and keep laughing!
Hi Sarah, brilliant cover and great pick up on David Bowie 🙂
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Since forever I’ve been meaning to see what Zowie did for a living! I don’t know how I’d missed it until now. I’m so glad you like my cover – thank you!
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Fascinating post!
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I’m very glad you enjoyed it, Kendall!
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Thank you! I did!
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Great cover. I watched the movie and I really liked it. Not one easy to forget, for sure…
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Thanks, Olga. I’m longing to see the film now. They show almost all the space-based movies here in Crete but not yet Moon and I’d never heard of it!
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Wonderful cover….loved the story behind it….thank you…..and have a beautiful day with many smiles:):) Janet. xx
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Thank you so much, Janet. Keep smiling and humming. xx 😀
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That’s a very good cover idea, Sarah. The film is excellent. I won’t say anything about the story though, as any hint would provide a spoiler. I hope that you get to see it one day.
(It is £3.80 on Amazon UK for a region 2 European DVD)
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I meant to add that I would be happy to buy a copy and post it to you, if you can’t get it. My treat!. x
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How very sweet of you. That would be rather grand. I’ll email with the address. x
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Gosh, forgot to say thank you for the compliment!
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That’s awesome, Sarah. Thanks for pointing me to it. Hugs
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Thank you, Teagan. I think my favourite bit is the comment about not wanting to see Kubrick’s reflection in the helmet glass! Hugs. xx
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LOL, that really is rich, isn’t it. 😀
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Well, it’s a bit rich me complimenting myself on my own humour! Or perhaps the expression means something else in the US?
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