Potential Album Cover Planning

We really like elements from many albums we've looked at as discussed in the previous blog. I really like the pose Ellie Goulding is doing as this will help clearly represent our artist, Georgia May, as 'The Girl Next Door'. We used a script font that we had found when experimenting with different fonts. I tried it with black and white font but found that the black font was more engaging when I asked people which one they preferred. We now have an idea what we want our album cover to look like so when we go to take photos of Georgia we will have a clear idea on what to do.

I do like this album cover but i feel like the album is very plain due to the pink background and very generic for a girl. Instead we may try incorporate more about our song or using a more popping image. Another idea to explore is to make the album pop create the feel of being unconscious on our album cover like either using a slow shutter speed to create blur or to lay an image in green, red and blue to make it look 3D but not actually 3D, this will create the impression of being unconscious.

I tried out using an interesting image of a dream catcher, I really like this as i layered it over the pink background using photoshop.  We chose a dream catcher because we think they are very aspirational and associated with dreams which are something we want to achieve in life. This also works well with the message of our album.















I like the one with Ellie Goulding in the foreground as this represents what who our artist is and what she is about. She looks like she is also the 'Girl Next Door' as well as being organic. I think this is much more interesting than the plain pink background but doesn't take the focus away from the star image of the artist. This will also help attract our target audience as teenagers may like the innocent mood that the pink and dream catcher layered creates. This will also fit our genre because the colours represent pop well and will stand out in a shop or on iTunes where the song may be sold.

When showing our target audience this, they didn't like it. They though it was too revealing and removed her urban qualities. Thus we will have to rethink the album cover by looking at artists such as Jess Glynne and Lily Allen.