This document discusses album cover art and influences. It analyzes several album covers that feature urban locations and independent, do-it-yourself styles. These covers portray artists in city streets and buildings, often using practical lighting techniques like street lamps. The document suggests replicating these styles for an album cover by also choosing an urban location and simple font and composition.

1. This is to show what album covers
are giving us a influence whilst
making ours.

2. This is a wide shot of flats.
Due to the background,
how high the flats are and
all the lights, the area
looks urban. On every
album of theirs, they have
a lighter (again
representing their
band/album) with a bold
font making their name
look more obvious.

3. Again this is the lighter that is
recognisable as the group.
The location is outside on the
street and on a actual bus-
stop. This would be free to
shoot which makes it look
independent. The location
looks extremely urban. The
rule of thirds brings more
attention to the guy stood in
the shot. Although made to
look as if the light was
naturally there ,they have
obviously set it up so the
photo is more well lit.

4. Having a bright pink light
stands out and brings your
attention to the album cover
as the rest of the photo is
plain. The lighting Is more to
the left, which means the rule
of 3 was applied. This means
that more attention will be
brought to the side rather
than the middle. They have
obviously done this on
purpose and it has worked
well. On the front cover they
have duplicated a shape,
however it’s not noticeable
straight away. It looks as
though it may be a laptop
which fits with the name of
the title of the album.

5. This photo is different to the other ones we have selected as inspiration.
However we think if we choose a more urban looking area this would be a nice
digipak cover. The font is simple. As there are no people in the photo it’s hard to
establish the genre. However because it’s a photo of offices/nice building its
obvious its not grime, rap etc as these aren't the obvious conventions.

6. All of the areas that these photo’s have been
taken in are urban locations and they look
more independent because of this. This is
obvious because they look as if they are in
quite busy areas and didn’t pay to take the
photo there. We want to do a similar one to
this, however it will be harder to at night as
we don’t have the same lighting equipment,
meaning it wont look as good. We are still
going to use it as our influence.