2. • As a group we decided to add features from these two draft album covers. The first
draft on the left is Daniel’s and the second on the right is mine. We decided as a
group that Daniel’s location was really good as it actually shows cigarettes in the
theatre; it fits the album name perfectly. The cigarette’s having faces and sitting next
to the band members make the album cover look more interesting and eye-catching
as you don’t usually see cigarettes at a theatre. The instruments I added in my draft
are the instruments that were used in the song so we thought it was more
conventional to include these instruments in the theatre location on the final album
cover. This will therefore show the audience which band member does what; for
example the guitarist will hold his guitar and the lead singer will have his
microphone. We’re going to use the same font as what a theatre would present for
the band name. This will help give a feel of being at a theatre and the bold clear
font will help the audience remember the band name. The name of the album will
be a hand-written font to give a more personal feel.
3. Here is a mock-up of the two album covers
We have decided to use this type of font for the band name
because it’s the same font as what a theatre presents. This will
help emphasize that the theme is part of a theatre. The colour
of the font will be black. Although this draft has a white
background, our actual final album cover won’t have this as
we feel the font looks like it has been copied and pasted.
The title of the band is at the top as it’s the most important
feature of an album cover. As it’s at the top, people will notice
this first.
The name of the band and the name of the album is on the
album because this is one of the conventions of an album
cover. This was also a restriction in the creative brief.
We decided to use cigarettes who are actually sitting with the
band members because it shows cigarettes are actually in the
theatre.
We decided this font for the album name because it looks
We choose this location because we feel this will hand written and this will make the album cover look more
help emphasize and let the audience visually see personal. I think this will make the target audience feel more
the ‘theatre’ mentioned in the name of the connected to the band because of the more personal feel to
album. the album cover.
The band members will be in the middle of the album cover to represent their importance. The lead singer will
be at the bottom alone while his members are above him because this is conventional. The lead singers to band
members usually stand out from the rest of their members for example Hayley Williams in the band Paramore
stands out with her red hair and being the only female within the band.
