These are two of the pottential front album covers: The main differenece between the two is the the font of the artists name 'Hayleigh'. The picture used cleary shows the artisits face and as she is knew to the 'music scene' i feel this is something very important when a artist is trying to be successfull. The main colour scheme for both of the covers is black, purple and white; which is a suitable colour scheme for our target audience as well as for the artist (gender, age).
I asked a number of people within our target audience specification, which of a select few photographs (6) they thought i should use for my album cover. The photo's i showed them were:
The first cover has had the best reaction from two; after i had asked 20 people fitting the target audience. They liked the colour effect on the picture as well as the style of writing for the artisists name and the purple glow around it. One feature which they felt could be changed was the style of writing for the album name 'Infinity', the colouring was fine (as it fit in with the colour sceme); but it could be improved.
The second pottential album cover's difference between the first is the style the artist name is writen. Some of the people i asked liked the effect of the purple glow around the box of the letters, where as others did not (which is why i changed the writing on the other album cover). They felt it was to stiff and could be much smoother. Again, they liked the picture; and felt if anything the picture should stay and the coulour effect used with it.
For the back cover i used a picture which i felt corresponds with the front, but still shows our artist. Both front and back are pictures taken with a brick wall as the background, the front cover shows the face of our artict and the back cover shows the back of the artist (in the same clothes/costume). For both pottential back covers i have put the artists name and the name of the album as well as a track list. I decided on putting the track list on the back of our artisits jacket, and the feedback i have got for this particular part of the back cover has been very positive. The two covers show the artists name in the two different styles used on the front cover. With the second cover getting a better reception than the first; concluding that for both the front and back covers i will be using the smoother font with the purple glow just around the letterin and not boxed.
For the inside covers, research has showed that some artists have the lyrics of the songs (and who made/produced them) on the album inside, some have pictures of the artisits and others have a mixture of both. As my artist is new to the music scene i ahve decided to go with pictures, so the audinece can familiarise themselves with her and see the 'style' of clothing and make up she uses.
The first is a collage of pictures, not long shots or mid shots, but souly focussing on her facial features. Only three photos have been used, 2 of her lips and 1 of her eyes, but they have been put into a pattern/sequence. Each horrizontal line has a different effect for that set of pictures. I showed this to my target audience and asked them what they thought of it as one of the inside pannel and if i should or should not use it. 20 people were asked and all 20 said yes i should be put in as one of the pannels; the main feature they liked was the change in effect on each line.
This is the second of the inside covers, it is similar to the first; as it uses the same pictures on each line, but each line has a different effect. For the second, i have gone for more of a colourfull feel, and i used mid-shot pictures of our artist; showing her face and some clothing.
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