2. Ideas for a name
For most artists of the punk rock genre, album names tend to be named after
a song that is on the album, either a personal favourite of the bands or one
that has done well in presales.
We’ve thought about having an eponymous album as we have mentioned a
background of the band in our treatment sheet and not many bands use
eponymous albums after a few releases unless the album is better than the
previous ones.
Another idea is to use a word associated with the band name, Mascot, or
even use a word that clashes with the word.
3. Front Ideas
Overall, there are four main ideas that we have for the front
album cover. The first idea is to have a cartoon background, like
the example on the left, showing creativity of the band and
colours to relate to the genre of the band.
The second idea is to use an image of the band, like the example
below, to familiarize the audience with the band. This would
create a more serious tone for the band.
Our third idea is to have a landscape photo, either of nature or
something man made, and have the opposite on the inside or on
the actual CD to show a contrast (a common theme in the bands
video etc.).
And our final idea is to use an image of a mascot (a man in a
chicken suit or something similar) thus linking the band to the
image and creating iconography.
4. CD Ideas
Using the examples of bands from before, we compared the
CD artwork of their albums, to the album artwork. We
found that bands tend to use artwork on the CD that fits
with the theme of the album and include the title, the band
name and also the logos of record companies etc.
Example, Biffy Clyro’s ‘Puzzle’ shows a silhouette of a man
sat in the same position on the album artwork. The
recurring theme of puzzle pieces is clearly shown.
Other bands, such as A Day To Remember, use very
simple designs on the CD artwork but have very artistic
album artworks. The CD will usually feature the albums
name and the logo of the band.
We have also noticed the odd few bands that include a
track list on the actual CD, showing the songs featured
on the album. This could be for incase of losing the
actual digipak so the purchaser can still have the track
list available to them.
5. Back Ideas
From the examples we have looked at, we
have determined that the back of the album
needs to feature a list of the songs present
on the album, that way the audience get an
idea of what they are paying for.
As well as a song list, the back of the digipak
needs to feature copyright grounds as to
warn people of the problems of them
copyrighting the songs. This is shown
frequently on peoples album to stop
copyright. We will also show the logo of the
record company to show recognition of the
company as well as a bar code for when the
CD is purchased.
6. Here are some mock examples that we
have created of the front
