Album Artwork is a key indication to what genre the music is from. Album Artwork normally follows elements of the style of music videos from the album so that people recognise the work of the artist. Also any other merchandise from that artist will be designed in a similar style, like a magazine advert for example.
My chosen song is from the artist Ellie Goulding. She works in the genre of pop. I used the search engine Google and typed in the phrase 'Pop Albums' to see what the general conventions are of a pop album cover. Below shows some examples from both Male and Female artists ....
As a general rule Pop album covers are normally close up photographs of the artist with their name on it and the name of the album. This is normally as the artist is easily recognisable and to promote them more as an artist. Colour schemes of the album covers are normally dependant on the sex of the artist and the style of their music. For example Adele's album cover for '21' shown above uses dark colours and she looks unhappy in her photograph. She also doesn't make eye contact with the camera which is quite signifiant to add to the sombre mood of the album cover. This fits well to her style of music as she writes emotional ballads about her negative experiences within love.
However Rihanna's 'Loud' album shown in the top right hand cover of my set of album covers above is the opposite of this. Rihanna writes up beat, dance music that is fun so this is reflected in her album cover with its bright, vibrant colours and connotations of love and affection are created with the use of red colours.
Ellie Goulding follows this pattern of photographs of herself as the main image on her past album covers, below shows some examples of this.
For my chosen song, Ellie's cover of the Elton John original 'Your Song' there is already an album cover present. Below shows the front and back cover of this album.
As a general rule Pop album covers are normally close up photographs of the artist with their name on it and the name of the album. This is normally as the artist is easily recognisable and to promote them more as an artist. Colour schemes of the album covers are normally dependant on the sex of the artist and the style of their music. For example Adele's album cover for '21' shown above uses dark colours and she looks unhappy in her photograph. She also doesn't make eye contact with the camera which is quite signifiant to add to the sombre mood of the album cover. This fits well to her style of music as she writes emotional ballads about her negative experiences within love.
However Rihanna's 'Loud' album shown in the top right hand cover of my set of album covers above is the opposite of this. Rihanna writes up beat, dance music that is fun so this is reflected in her album cover with its bright, vibrant colours and connotations of love and affection are created with the use of red colours.
Ellie Goulding follows this pattern of photographs of herself as the main image on her past album covers, below shows some examples of this.
For my chosen song, Ellie's cover of the Elton John original 'Your Song' there is already an album cover present. Below shows the front and back cover of this album.
When I come to making my own album cover for this song I am going to keep with the idea of having a photograph of the profile of the artist as the main image. This is because it is a very well used convention in the majority of female pop artists album covers as show in other album covers at the top of this post. I am going to change it slightly however by using a photography studio to photograph my artist on a plain background rather than one with Autumn colours like in Ellie Goulding's album,
The use of lights/spots in this album cover is successful as it adds to the dreamy, wonderland feel of the song. I don't want to copy this so I am going to experiment with other sources of light like candles or fairy lights possibly to create a similar effect.
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