2. The Objective:
To prepare myself for creating an album cover from scratch
and hopefully to stimulate ideas I could use for creating my
album cover. This could include ideas on the technical side of
things (such as how to create the title font) or ideas for
pictures and names.
3. 1. Go to Wikipedia. Click random. The first random Wikipedia
article you get is the name of your artist.
2. Go to Random quotations. The last four or five words of the
very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to Flickr and click on explore the last seven days. Third
picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together. Preferably in
a square format layout, like a nice old-timey vinyl album
cover.
The Rules:
Personally I will probably just be using PowerPoint to create my cover since I am not at school,
also thanks to charlotte since I copy and pasted (then edited) these rules from her blog:
http://charlottemarcha2media.blogspot.co.uk/
7. WHIE + Half Of Them Are True +
PowerPoint/Photoshop Magic
Step Four:
Equation:
8. This is the original image. I feel that this is a good picture
for album art as it is widely symbolic of time, life, good
and evil etc. It is also positioned well so that text can go
on the right hand side, mainly in the top right so as to
balance with and fit around the dark figures. The picture
could also be relatable to the audience, as it is an image
of the London underground. Thus, we could expect the
artist to identify with the hustle and bustle of life in
London. I would also expect this to be a major theme in
their lyrics.
This version of the image was done on Photoshop using
a basic filter. The bright lines on the black background
connotes an electronic genre as it reminds me of the
bright lights in dance music. However, this symbolic
contrast could also suggest a theme of social inequality
which is more in line with the rap genre.
9. This filter was very different. While I don’t think this is
appealing enough to be an album cover, I thought the
colour might connote a lot of different genres. The
green lines remind of the lighting familiar to electronic
and dance music but the whole picture is to dark to be
of those genres I think. Instead, I feel that this might
work for a more remote genre such as jazz, blues or
reggae. The colours seem sad enough for the blues and
they also represent stereotypical reggae too. I’m actually
growing to like this more as I write this, I suppose this is
also quite sci-fi, which might fit with rock or pop.
This looks a bit too Photoshop to a genuine album cover,
but I like in this how there appears to be mist in the
background. This would fit with heavy rock or heavy
metal or other gothic/emo genres (I’m sorry if that is
stereotype or incorrect but you know what I mean). The
red connotes danger and anger, and the red mist literally
represents the descent of rage.
10. This is an interesting one. The filter I used has given it
almost a graphic novel or comic book feel. I feel that this
could connote rap music or maybe R&B. I also think that
if I were to tint or colour (or whatever it is) half of this
image, to represent the half in the album title, it would
work well. This also has quite a smart feel I think, like
James Bond or something.
<It’s a bit like this.
The white lines in this version gives it a very
professional and sci-fi look. Sci-fi is most often used in
pop, as a major theme in this is surrealism. However,
sci-fi can also be used in rock too, for example by Pink
Floyd in ‘dark side of the moon’. I feel that this image
suits rock more as the dark figure looks quite sinister
and most pop songs are not so sinister. None the less,
the bleak colouring could connote an artist into bleak
songs such as ‘chasing cars’ and ‘run’ by Snow Patrol.
11. From now on, these images are basically going to be
almost the same. I think that the blurred look could
represent a variety of things such as busy London or
working life. It could also be taken to be quite
supernatural too. I think this would suit an indie
track most.
Pretty colours! This takes inspiration from… something
that I know exists but can’t find on google. I could take
this further and only do half of it with the colour so as
to symbolise the title; “half of them are true”. It’s
quite hip-hop… I think…
12. I really like this blurred effect, the texture is
great. I’m sure this effect has been used on
real album art but I can’t place my finger on it.
Anyway, a lot of these variations look almost
pencil drawn, which is a running theme in
many indie album covers. The colours reflect
purity and there is a contrast which could
represent the lyrics.
13. Fonts:
WHIE
Half Of
Them Are
True
WHIE
Half Of Them
Are True
WHIE
Half Of Them Are
True
WHIE
Half Of
Them Are
True
WHIE
Half Of Them
Are True
WHIE
Half Of Them Are
True
Elves might like this type of
music, you never know…
Indie, Country or country pop
Rock? Pop? Rap?
…reggae???
Old style
music
Electro,
pop, hip
hop
Country or old
style
14. Fonts:
WHIE
Half
Of
Them
Are
True
WHIE
Half Of Them Are
TrueWHIE
Half Of
Them Are
TrueWHIE
Half Of Them
Are True
WHIE
Half Of Them Are
True
WHIE
Half Of Them
Are True
Hip-hop
or pop
Female
artist(s)
This font is actually
used by band
Evanescent, who
are a rock/gothic
metal band
Gothic, metal
Hip hop, electro, r&b, dance
Rock, though
could be used
by anything
with a specific
theme
15. WHIE
Half Of Them
Are True
WHIE
Half Of Them Are
True
WHIE
Half Of Them
Are True
Fonts:
WHIE
Half Of ThemAre
True
mariachi
Dance, electro, hip-hop
gothic
Pop, hip-hop
WHIE
Half Of
Them Are
True
reggae
16. WHIE
Half Of Them Are
True
Fonts:
WHIE
Half Of
Them
Are True
WHIE
Half Of Them Are
TrueWHIE
Half Of Them Are True
Country western
Pop or any with
sci-fi theme
Rap, rock
Like the
others that
are
essentially
the same,
pop or hip-
hop
18. Finals:
Dance or electro theme.
I think this font goes well with this
picture, It’s quite sci-fi/electric-
y/neon-y and stuff. My only
concern is that this might be too
dark for an electro or dance album
cover, I thought this was still quite
‘daft punk’ though…
19. Finals:
Gothic or heavy rock
metal.
Still looks a bit terrible
and Photoshop-py, but
the font matches the
theme of the picture and
I think this is perhaps the
most obvious cover
when guessing what
theme it is.
20. Finals:
Pop or rock or something….
Really like this one, sci-fi theme
works well. Can’t think of much
too say about it really…
21. Finals:
Rap? This doesn’t really
strike me as a rap cover to
be honest. I couldn’t really
get a font to match the
picture. Dunno why I made
the font this colour, it just
looked right.
I also considered using this
font in a greyish blue, or
sticking with this font but
making it grey to match the
picture. That looked too
dull to me however.
22. Finals:
Hip Hop or pop
I think this one is good.
The colours of the pic
and the font match. The
font looks hand written,
most likely by a female
artist. I don’t really
think it’s surreal enough
to be pop, its more
likely hip-hop.
23. Finals:
Pop, soul
This one doesn’t really look
fluent enough to be real – you
can tell I did this using Photoshop
and PowerPoint. The pink font
connotes a female artist again
and the colours of the picture go
nicely with it to be very soul-ish. I
put pop again because pop can
really be anything.
26. Finals:
Indie or pop or country or
something…
This is perhaps my favourite
picture, it looks vague enough
to be an indie album cover, but
the font has a hint of country
perhaps. To be honest though,
a country cover wouldn’t really
have a picture of the London
underground on it would it?
