In Cold Blood - Imagery

To come up with ideas for imagery I made a mind map.


The idea that stuck out the most to me was the cherry pie idea, Nancy Clutter (the daughter of the family) taught one of the girls in the village how to make a cherry pie the day before she died.

I wanted to combine this idea of cherries/ a cherry pie with blood to combine the idea of murder and innocence.



I experimented with paintings and drawings in illustrator however I wanted to make them look bore realistic therefore opted to take actual photographs.

To create these images I used cherries, a cherry pie and red food colouring to represent blood.









I crushed 4 cherries to represent the 4 family members


I also wanted to play around with the idea that 'In Cold Blood' was first printed in the New York Times. I took a newspaper article and cut out words from it that relate to the book.



I then cut out the title of the book.