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Front Cover Explanation & Gif Experimentation

Making different variation experimentations would improve the project as I feel I should try somethings different even though I will still be making a book for my final outcome. I decided I could animated key Alevi figures who are important to the community. Each person in the gif are either poets or singers. The top being Muhibe Akarsu who was an Alevi singer, the figure on the right being Metin Altiok who is a Turkish well-known poet who was also an Alevi and finally the figure at the bottom being Hasret Gultekin who was a promising Alevi musician. Theses people were all killed in a massacre in Sivas in 1993 where an Islamic mob killed over 30 Alevi singers/poets. I felt illustrating their faces just themselves shows the Alevi context in the gif.

That brings me on to the final major project front cover of the book I made.

For the final cover I decided I wanted to use those illustrations and demonstrate the same idea but this time in a better developed quality but also I changed up another thing, I removed one of the poets from the illustrations and replaced it with a Semah dancer but just the head of the person as the others only have heads too. This would add more things that would relate to Alevism.

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