1. Crea%ve Brief for Album Cover
Nicole Jim 10R

2. Brief
Album art is a very crea%ve area of image
development. It has a very big influence on people
buying music, especially in music stores on CD format. I
will be selec%ng a genre and will produce album art for
my upcoming album.

3. Aims and Objec%ves
Aim: To appeal to the possible customers for the type of music chosen.
Objec)ve: I am going to strive towards making the genre evident on
my album cover. I can also carry out a survey asking possible
customers whether they would buy the album judging from its cover
and whether they can tell the chosen genre is.
Aim: To develop student’s understanding of Photoshop.
Objec)ve: I can make a step‐by‐step presenta%on to show my
developing skills on Photoshop.
Aim: To be appropriate for use as digital outcome online and for print.
Objec)ve: I will make two sizes for my album cover, one or digital
outcome online, the other for prin%ng.

4. Mood Board of Indie Album Covers

5. Most of the album covers that I have chosen and put on my mood board are very
simple, only 4 of them have an image of people (the band/ar%st). Some others,
however, have images of nature in the background such as trees, or forests. I
have no%ced that many of them are actually pain%ngs or drawings that they
have use for their album cover. Also, in my opinion, the effect of the images give
off a vintage‐type feeling to it, as the album cover was taken quite some %me
ago. The colours are a liVle bit dull and faded.
The band name/ar%st name is very clear and the album name is almost always
right next to the band/ar%st name or below it. On four of the album covers that I
have chosen, the font of the text is printed as if it were handwriVen or painted
by hand.
For example:

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