LENS FLARES PART 10

Back to lens flares! One use of flares I noticed from Struzan was how he utilizes lens flares for diptychs (covers for books or magazines): He places a lens flare on the spine, and spreads the flare across both the front and the back of the cover. This motif encourages the viewer to continue viewing the cover from front to back and adds cohesion with all 3 sides.

In this Indiana Jones book example, the flare source comes from the back of the cover and extends to the front cover:

An exception with the back flare: Struzan added a back cover lens flare, but it does not meaningfully extend to the front to be a part of the composition:

Struzan’s quadriptych for the Phantom Menace:

While 4 sections of the art were sold separately, the lens flares are divided amongst the 4 covers, the cutoff flares give a sense that something is missing, so I think it adds to the satisfaction when the parts are seen together:

NEXT STEPS

This introductory study to Struzan’s strategies into multi-panel work makes me excited to study his motifs in diptychs:

And triptychs: