Once there was this thing called vinyl records. Vinyl was sort of like CDs, except bigger, and blacker, and when you played them they had this crackling fireplace quality that made everything you heard sound warm and 'authentic'.
Unlike MP3s, when you held a 12 inch record in your hands you felt like you owned something real, substantial. Its fragility made you treat them with care and respect, holding the edges like it was some kind of precious artefact from your youth. Which, retrospectively, it was.
It was only a matter of time before I started making Read-Along record imagery for more adult films. Because irony, right? So here is Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket as a Read-Along Adventure. Insert hilarious iconic film quote here:
An interesting thing about the movie Read-Along series was that they would often focus on a single event or character from a film. One of the E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Read-Alongs cast Gertie as the main character. Narrated by Drew Barrymore, the story was told from her point of view and tapped into the clearly lucrative sullen six year old girl demographic.
I've created my next Read-Along mock up with this in mind – Ridley Scott's Alien, told entirely from the perspective of Ripley. The cover layout is based pretty closely on a Rocky Read-Along from the same period.
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