Our inspiration

We took our inspiration for our album cover and poster from Young Kato's album 'Drink, Dance, Play'. They used bright colours and made the whole cover look bold and bright. They also used a completely different person who isn't in the band, to be on the front cover. This is the same as what we have done. The bright colours that they have used, show the up beat and loudness of the album. This is what we have tried to get across too. 

Research

We have done a lot of research into the digi pack by looking at lots of different album covers and seeing exactly what they have on the front the back and the two inside covers. We can then use these to organise the writing etc that we need on each side. For example, on the back of the album we will need a barcode and some small print at the bottom. This is one of the conventions of a hard copy of an album. Once this is all done, it will have the main conventions for it to look like a proper album.

Typography for our digi pack

We had to find the right typography for our digi pack and we found the correct one online. It is sharp, angular and bold to represent the sound of the album and the fact that it is up beat and dancy. We managed to lay out the name of the album and the name of the artist on the front of the album after lots of moving it abaout and changing the size of the font. We are now trying to sort out the back of the album as this is a little bit harder and we are not sure what font to use. It is hard to make the back of the album actually look like a proper album cover. This is the main problem we are having at the moment.

Photo shoot for ancillary task

Today we went out and shot our 4 covers for our digi pack. We went into a dark room that had black walls and turned off all the lights. We used a spotlight to just light up the face and not the background so that the background was black. We decided to have the front cover as the main girl in the video with powder paint over her face. This would link well to the video where they are chucking powder paint. For the back we have decided to use a shot of the back of her head which doesn't have powder paint on it. This links well with the studio shots that we took in the video. On the inside covers we have decided to use a close up her of her eye covered in powder paint and also a close up of her lips on the other side.

 

The photo shoot went very well and we got more photos than we needed just incase so that we had enough. The close ups of the eye were the shots that were the most successful within the shoot. However I think the front picture is very strong and is a good iconography for our music video.

Third album cover idea

 

The whole idea of this album cover is to have a girls face with powder paint all over her on the front cover, filling up the whole page with bold and sharp text saying the name of the album (Love Me Again).

 

Iconography linked to sound...

- The powder paint shows the modern and young stance to the album. Because the powder paint is bright and colourful, it shows that the sound is going to be loud and upbeat.

 

Typography linked to sound...

- The typography that says 'Love Me Again' is in a very bold block type which shows that the song stands out and is very out there and is up beat. The fact that it is very sharp and angular shows that there is no flow to the song but that it is very to the point and up beat.

 

Conventions...

- The song that we have picked is a dance/pop song. The conventions of this genre of song is loud, bold, colourful, up beat and powerful. We have showed this in our album cover idea through the typography and the iconography with the bold and colourful text and picture.

 

Meta-narrative

- John Newman has a traditional look to himself. He is very old school and retro. On his album covers you see dull colours and the main focus is him on the front. We have added the UKF (who remixed the song) look to our album cover and made it very colourful and bold to make it stand out as a dance/pop album. 

Second album cover idea

 

For this album cover idea we came up with a symbol for the song. We picked a heart for the 'Love' part of the song and we put an arrow on the end of the heart to show the 'Again' part of the song. Together, this symbol spells out 'love Me Again'.

 

Iconography linked to sound...

- We decided that the Outside of the heart would have splattered powder paint on a black background with the heart filled in black. With the bright colours of the powder paint and the boldness of the black heart, this shows that the sounds are going to be loud and very sharp and to the point. It shows the dance/pop genre within the album cover.

Typography linked to sound...

- The typography that says 'Love Me Again' is in a very bold block type which shows that the song stands out and is very out there and is up beat. The fact that it is very sharp and angular shows that there is no flow to the song but that it is very to the point and up beat.

Conventions...

- The song that we have picked is a dance/pop song. The conventions of this genre of song is loud, bold, colourful, up beat and powerful. We have showed this in our album cover idea through the typography and the iconography with the bold and colourful text and picture.

Meta-narrative

- John Newman has a traditional look to himself. He is very old school and retro. On his album covers you see dull colours and the main focus is him on the front. We have added the UKF (who remixed the song) look to our album cover and made it very colourful and bold to make it stand out as a dance/pop album.

First album cover idea

 

For this album cover we decided to have a totally black background with just one hand print that had been covered in bright, colourful powder paint, in the middle of the cover.

 

Iconography linked to sound...

- The bold and colourful hand against a very black background shows that the sound stands out and just like the hand does. We decided to do a hand print because it links to throwing powder paint which is in our music video. I think the fact that there is just one hand print on a black background shows the power of the song.

 

Typography linked to sound...

- The typography that says 'Love Me Again' is in a very bold block type which shows that the song stands out and is very out there and is up beat. The fact that it is very sharp and angular shows that there is no flow to the song but that it is very to the point and up beat.

Conventions...

- The song that we have picked is a dance/pop song. The conventions of this genre of song is loud, bold, colourful, up beat and powerful. We have showed this in our album cover idea through the typography and the iconography with the bold and colourful text and picture.

Meta-narrative

- John Newman has a traditional look to himself. He is very old school and retro. On his album covers you see dull colours and the main focus is him on the front. We have added the UKF (who remixed the song) look to our album cover and made it very colourful and bold to make it stand out as a dance/pop album.