The Album Covers

The album covers of the records that Julie puts on the player throughout the film are all fictional — they were made by our incredibly talented graphic artist team led by Alyce Forsman (along with Charles & Ryan). Here’s an example of initial pitches and works-in-progress. The final result was printed, aged & carefully glued onto an existing record album. 

Alyce is an artist that works tirelessly on our films during pre-production from locations on the east coast – sending proofs, tests, designs, pitches, concepts, special photographic effects, stickers, mailers, props – whatever came up. Without giving anything away, Alyce’s terrific artwork appears consistently throughout White Knuckles. 

From: Alyce Forsman 
Subject: Album Covers 
CC: Charles 
Date: Sat, 19 August 2006 21:46:51 

Charles gave me the specs regarding the album covers, I threw together some using your suggested names. These would have to be printed out and pasted onto existing albums. So far, there are just covers. If any are acceptable, I can do backs and/or insides, add fake songs, etc. I just showed Chuck the Yello one and he informed me that there is a band called yello but I included it thinking the name could be changed to Hello or Mello or something. Maybe Yikes, a favorite word of mine. i can change it on the t-shirt, too. The silver fox is a cover I did using Tobey’s old band so I already have a back cover and insides (I had made a cd cover) i enlarged it and removed the bands name… Like I said, I threw these together, after reading your email to Chuck… So, feel free to tear these ideas apart and suggest changes. I am so used to it… ah the life of a graphic designer. I recognized your Mother’s name in Pra G. Na … clever. (That’s 23 year old me as Sadie Jones) The men at Lunch guys is an old photo I took from work. They are long dead and gone. 

Alyce