M4 CP - Book Cover Design (Part 1)

For my re-designed book cover, I chose George Orwell’s 1984.  Below is a picture of the book cover I have at home and below that book cover are the ideas I found online as well as my sketch of two separate ideas as a re-design.  I was thinking of doing either the electric chair with the camera as one idea or the town square picture of the large screens with big brother as a second idea.  I really like the original with the eyeball that symbolizes that big brother is always watching, but it is so simple and I thought perhaps I could take it a little further.  Conveying your point is so important in marketing.  When I think about the story or the message that George Orwell was telling, I think more about gas-lighting and torture than just merely being watched.  In my opinion, it would be effective to add some of these elements to the cover of the book in order to market a little more clearly what the book is really about because it is so much more than having eyes on you at all times.  The Orwellian Dystopia is so much more than a lack of privacy.