Final Idea Album Cover

 

This is our final idea for our album cover. As you can see from the image it's very simple but eye catching drawing the audience in towards the album itself. By using capital letter's for all of the words makes them stand out. By doing this we thought it would look better instead of using the bold as it's not drawing away from the main image. The use of the dashes in the album cover near the text will catch the audience’s eye straight away which is a great factor as they will straight away be looking at the artists name. This is the beginning of the 'Zed Effect' the audiences eyes draw a 'Z' shape when looking at the album cover which is something we took into consideration with the positioning of our text. The use of the colours in the image are very warming and not too vibrant (we wanted to leave the balloon in the image to be the vibrant symbol). The positioning of the image on the album cover is really effective the audience can get the full impact of the image and will be able to associate the balloon and the female character with the music video 'Lovers Eye' on the album. The balloon is representing the main symbol for the album cover which is something we hinted at in our planning. We wanted the balloon to be the logo for the artist which can be found in my previous blog posts. However when developing our ideas we found that the typography of our text would be a more realistic logo. We decided that the balloon would become the 'logo' for the album cover/adverts and such products linked to the album. Instead of having just the one balloon like we did in the music video we have used two so we can represent that not only will the album have songs focused on reminiscing but songs will a positive atmosphere. The balloons can also be linked to the start of the couple in the vidoes love for each other, the female is looking out into the horizon of the sea this represents that she is reflecting on her past memories peacefully this can be linked to the name of the album 'The Root Of Memories.' We got most of ideas for our album cover from our research. When analysing album covers for my research I found that there was an image of the artists on the front cover. We wanted to take this concept on board but add our own twists to it so we could make it unique and our own. We decided that we would follow the idea we found of using a person for the front cover but instead of using the artist we thought we would be able to create a better link with the female in the video with the album cover as she is the one who is associated with the red balloons. Even though the artist we have created is a male using a female for the album cover let us be able to have alot more diversity in our ideas and being able to direct the album to both sexes.

This image is very pixleated so we will have to make the image again.