{"id":88127,"date":"2020-10-04T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/the-social-network-soundtrack-artwork-rob-sheridan\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:08:34","slug":"the-fascinating-story-of-the-social-network-soundtrack-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/the-fascinating-story-of-the-social-network-soundtrack-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fascinating Story of the Social Network Soundtrack Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have had a rather successful 2020, with a fresh Emmy win for their work on the soundtrack for HBO’s\u00a0Watchmen<\/em><\/a> as well as the honor of finally joining the ranks of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as members of Nine Inch Nails in the same year. But that’s just one year. They’ve gained acclaim for lots of their work over the years, including for their acclaimed\u00a0The Social Network<\/em> soundtrack in 2011. Well, that soundtrack is notable for more than just its music.<\/p>\n

Artist Rob Sheridan, who has worked extensively with Nine Inch Nails since 1999, took to Twitter on the 10th anniversary<\/a> of\u00a0The Social Network<\/em>‘s original soundtrack release to elaborate on how\u00a0he came up with the album’s unique artwork. “For the TSN soundtrack art,” he said, “my goal was to walk the line between representing the film and creating something that stood as a piece of art on its own.”<\/p>\n

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Sheridan explained that his process began, unsurprisingly, with the iconic poster for the film itself, which featured a close up of Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook<\/a> founder Mark Zuckerberg overlaid with the text “you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” Sheridan, whose art style revolves around “glitching” and corrupting existing pictures and photographs to create hauntingly striking new pieces, experimented with glitching out that original image (sans text). Unfortunately, he had to settle for a more subdued version of his finished product due to Sony rejecting his preferred take on the artwork.<\/p>\n