Album covers - Emily

When designing and creating ideas for a CD cover, researching simular genre artists are key. I looked at an Oasis cover and got some ideas of how the cover of the band we are producing a video for (Little Grim) could look like. The simple layout of text and the image taking up 2 thirds of the cover is very eye catching because everything is very easy to look at. The colours work together with the image being black and white, and all of the text apart from the album name; making it all stand out and catch the audience's eyes when it is placed next to many other CD's on a shelf in a store. 

This particular cover of The Vaccines album 'Coming of Age' really caught my attention because of how simple it is. The layout of everything is very structured and centered in towards the middle of the cover. The black and white image makes the vibrant red stand out and both things work well together and really contrast each other. Even though the name of the album is not on the cover, the image seems to tell that story by the body language, attitude of facial expressions, clothes etc. the story being the idea of 'coming of age'. This idea could work well witht he band that we are working with and the title of the song.

The cover of this album Foo Fighters 'Wasting Light' caught my eye straight away and thought that something like this would well very well with everything that we are planning for the video for Little Grim. The idea that is being planned has a big connection to this cover due to some parts that could be used within the video. I do also think that the cover is very striking and eye catching because of the black background contrasting with the bold, vibrant colours, therefore making everything stand out and catch the eye of the audience.The cover of the album and also when it comes to designing and planning ideas for the magazine advert/poster, without the album being eye catching it will not capture the audience's attention let alone the target audience that we hope would want to be the CD.