Technical SEO Audit Podcast Cover

[Format] Landscape 16:9 gig cover, straight photographic portrait with an overlaid outlined type stack, shallow depth of field. Video-thumbnail style, no watermark, no personal names. [Layout] The person sits just right of centre with the head in the upper third and the body spanning the lower half, so the left third of the frame stays open for type. Three lines of outlined display type are stacked flush left across the lower-middle of the frame, overlapping the subject's chest and left arm and sitting in front of him. A large thin white outline numeral is ghosted into the upper-right background at very low opacity, roughly a fifth of the frame height. The background is a blurred pale interior of an office or corridor with a doorway frame and a plant blurred on the right, over which a soft violet-to-purple gradient wash has been laid on the left half, so the picture is cool and mauve rather than neutral. [Subject] A bald man in his early fifties with pale blue eyes and a close-trimmed grey goatee and moustache, a fair ruddy complexion. He wears a charcoal-grey button-up shirt with the collar open and the sleeves out of frame. Framed from mid-chest up, body angled very slightly toward his left, arms folded low and mostly cropped, looking straight at the lens with a light, friendly closed-mouth smile. Soft even daylight, mild background blur, natural shadow under the brow. [Headline] Three flush-left lines of very heavy sans caps, each with a thick black outline and each roughly a third of the frame width, stacked with tight leading: “SEO” in flat amber-gold with a black outline and a slight bevel; “TECHNICAL” in white with a black outline, the widest line; and “AUDIT” in white with a black outline, matching the first line's width. Nothing else is lettered anywhere on the cover. [Badges] None. The only mark is the large translucent outline numeral in the upper-right, used as a series tag rather than branding. [Mood] Muted mauve-grey photography under three hard outlined type lines, with one amber accent. Understated and human; at thumbnail size the outlined black-edged words are the only high-contrast shapes.