A shot of Folkestone down by The Leas
A shot of Manor house in the garden
The Photo we decided to use in the end was one of my brother Dan depicted as a God like Figure in front of a friends house at night time, I think this shot works fantastically as the lights on the house give an almost aura like light to the outside of Dan's figure. After taking this picture we knew that this would be the one to use and so decided not to take any more shots of people.
Example of what we wanted our cover to look like 1: The cover of Rage Against The Machines 1992 self titled album features a photo of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963.
Example of what we wanted our cover to look like 2: The Cover for Fightstar's debut features an animated scene that depicts a mother and daughter at the top of a set of stairs, trying to keep out of the way of a city being ruined by the floods.
After finding the perfect picture for our album cover we then needed to decide on which fonts and colour of lettering we wanted on the cover, We felt that to give it a clean look we would place both the artist name and the album title centred, with one underneath the other.
The album covers for Keep Calm and Carry On and Only Revolutions are good examples of how we wanted our album cover to look, with a memorable photo and plain titles of the same colour one underneath the other
Here are some of the colours and fonts that we tried out in the planning stage of the artwork but decided not to use.
Gold and Black, with a more stick look to the "Broadway" this was one of my favourite idea's but after dicussing it with Gareth we decided the font needed to be more classy and to not use coloured lettering.
White and Black with more complicated looking lettering on the "Broadway" we decided to then swap the colours of the album title and the band name, also we changed the font slightly
Black and White, with a heavier bold "Broadway" We decided against this idea because we felt that the fonts would look best if they were the same colour.
For the back cover we decided to use the other option of scenery, and so to match the darkness of the front, we felt it would be best to use scenery in the dark. The picture is however not taken by us, it has been edited by us, by putting on track listings and darkening the colour of the whole photo slightly.
To add to this we added the song titles to the back of the cover with all the usual copyright information and record label information, as well as adding the album title and the band name to the spine of the cover with the same font and white lettering as we used on the front cover and the record label in red.
Complete Album
We combined our ancillary texts by using themes from both texts as this is a common feature of media advertising. We used the background from the back cover of the digi pack in the magazine advertisement to show continuity. An example of this is this advert for 30 seconds to mars’ album This is War
For our magazine advertisement for the album we decided to use the similar theme that the 30 seconds to mars advert uses (above). We used for the background the same picture we had on the back cover of the album, and over the top of that we put on the conventions you expect to see such as ratings, singles off the album, release date and the album itself.
Album Front Cover
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