Hurtwood Media A2 - Exploring album artwork possibilities

Okay, so we've recieved a load of inspiration from a variety of artists and now we're looking at mainly the IMAGE!

This invloves us coming up with an album cover and design that fits our theme and actracts our target audience. Some of the following are examples of some bands that have a similar look to what we intend to base our design around.

First of all Caro Emerald, her Retro and 'old school' feel that her album has is an element we'd like to portray in our album cover. Maybe we could do this by adding this 'drawing' type affect over an image of the girls that we'll capture on the day of the shoot.

Here is a link to her page which has more info on her: http://caroemerald.com/

This second album cover is named 'So Red the Rose' and is by 'Arcadia'.
I love the idea of an illustration for an album cover, if not maybe in the album booklet that we could consider including as part of the package.






 
Another aspect that I like about this cover is the amount of pure 'whiteness' that it includes. As our video consists of a large amount of purity and bold contrasts of black and white I think this will link nicely together. As well as this I think the pureness attracts the viewers eye.

http://www.arcadiacrew.com/index1.asp

This girl band is quite low key and unknown, and hasn't been a great success in the music industry.
However this album cover of theirs has a similar set-up as to what we've envisioned to do.









In this, I think the bands name is done in quite a tacky font and colouring aswell and I feel it ruins the cover as a whole. But the way the girls are positioned in the foreground and are individually powerful is an element I'd like to produce in our cover.

 Destiny's Child a girl band which is a perfect example of what we hope to achieve.
They have a reputation for promoting feminism and power. These of corse are elements that we want to portray throughout the creation of our band.

The album cover above is quite dated for our time period now but the set up of the girls is something we'd like to take further. They are in the foreground (simialr to the Stunners) and all dressed similary, making an impact on the viewer. The character on the far right, known as Beyonce Knowles, is a perfect, individual example. Her expression and body positioning is strong and this stregth has been emphasised by the contrast of the other three members.
Their smile makes them look innocent and weaker in comparrison to Beyonce, So we should definietly take this aspect into account when creating our cover and image.