Album Covers Research

These are some examples of albums which had been published.

This album from the 'Stereophonics' although it is unrelated to our genre of music, shows a good example of colour and use of patterns in album covers. The title also suits the band and their music, along with the pattern of lines on the front cover.

The CD itself is also like the front cover. The pattern on the CD is the same lines as the front and back covers, but this time they are in dark colours like black and blue, so that the white writing around the CD shows up. The writing on the CD itself is the name of the album along with its band.

The back cover of the album is the same as the front with a continuation with the lined pattern. The writing is in white compared to the black on the front, however I feel this gives the album a contrast, as the name of the album "Language, Sex, Violence, Other?" it rather hard hitting so black is a good contrasting colour. The song titles however are in white as they stand out and are less bold and demanding as the album title. Also on the right side of the back cover is the band publisher, something we would need to include on our album cover.

This is another album. Although this is for a music quiz, it still shows a good use of colour and images suitable for the CD. The introduction on the back helps to act as an instruction manual, and if this were a music CD, it would be the song titles. The idea of a diamond shape with a cream background also helps to make the black writing contrast and stand out.

The front cover also links with the colour and image theme set out on the back of the case. The writing of the title "Spot the intro 2" is the same as the back and the font and style used make it stand out.

The inside of the album is decorated like the front and back to again show the consistency. The title is again present on the CD and booklet. The CD itself is different coloured to the rest of the album as it only uses one colour whereas the rest of the album uses 4 and more colours. This colouring however on the CD makes the images and text stand out more, something we are planning to replicate on out album cover.

We are also making a magazine advert for our second of the two tasks, and the research and information for that is on the blog of my partner Nicola Postle. 



Ideas for our Album Cover

For our video we need to create an album cover. 

 

We began to plan our the font style we would like to use on the album cover. To stick with the plan we had originally for the video, we want to use swirly writing, in a medium sized font and colour it white. The panels of the album where we are going to place pictures will be in black and white to again link in with the music video.

We decided to include our ideas from the video into our album cover. For the CD we are planning to put a teddy bear on the cover, to symbolise the teddy bear that Libby holds in the video. The teddy bear will also be reflected on the inside left panel of the cover, to again link with the video. For the front we plan to have a picture of Libby crying with the title of the song and singer next to it, with the back cover having a picture of the older sister to again link with the family theme of the video.

Ancillary Task Planning

For our ancillary tasks we have decided to spilt up, and create a Magazine Advert and a Digipak. Nicola will be working on our Magazine Advert, whilst I will be creating the Digipak.