Album Cover & Digipack

Here is my digipack which I what I want my CD to be presented as. This is how I want my star to be presented. Its important to show a link between the video and the album cover. The Video presents the star and that's got to be seen in the digipack. But I want to establish an image because this is her first album. The genre of the music is seen clearly through the digipack and I took the images which I felt represented the genre of music the best. Using the audience off facebook also helped me to choose the images which I have used. Its important for me to collect the opinions of the audience and doing so I have come to these conclusions to create this album.

I chose to call my act Hayleigh because its more suitable to the genre and I choose to call the album to infinity and beyond because I wanted her o passion to achieve to come through but also because I'm using intertexuality and this will draw the audience in because they will understand the link. Using black and white resembles my video but not having her in the middle is also a characteristic of the Indie genre. The position and the shot I used I feel are similar to other solo women Album covers. Using effects also helps me to create a close link between the genre and the colours clearly replicate an Indie genre rather than a R&B artist.

This the inside cover and I choose to add several pictures and using the same background and effect on the pictures to create the link between the cover and the middle. I used many pictures because I want to establish the artist and let the audience see her and the style which she represents. The pictures create character and allow the audience to be attracted to her.

Keeping the link between all the covers I did the same here as previously to keep continuity. I used different pictures which both have clear characteristics of the the Indie genre and they establish an artist and help to draw in the attention of the audience. I have include in small print about rights of copyright and the producer and writer. This is to make it professional with a bar code and a website link to allow the audience to look into her more.

Album Cover - Audience Feedback

My Album Cover

I allowed the target audience of the age range which I want to appeal to look at pictures and ask them to decide which was there favourite. Below are the options which were they mostly appealed too

Here are the amout of people which agreed with the pictures. They are in order of above.

I think its really important to see what the audience looks at when they want to buy an album, its clear that they have seen that the pink dress is clearly appealing to the male eye, based on things which they have said. After looking at the pictures there are some that would not be suitable for my image and what I want to be seen as. It doesn't match my song and the feel of my video.
So I took the second picture which was next choosen and decided that I wanted to see what effects I would add to the picture to make it more creative and similar to that of Alanis and Imogen. This is the when I first started playing, the first design which I liked because its slightly moody and it would still appeal to the target audience. However I think this would be more appealing as a single release instead of on front of an album.
Below is my first attempt at an album cover art. I like the theme of black and white which runs through this design but I have just began to get use to the software and I am finding it interesting and I want to continue with this idea.

Indie Album Covers Research

While looking at these artist, it would't apply directly to my song and album. Although I have a female solo artist, it doesn't account for the music genre. As I am releasing a Indie Album my album cover needs appeal to the target audience. Therefore, looking at relevent artists would be key.

Alanis Morisette



You can see from this album art that shes not the center of the piece and you don't see her face fully. There are a range of different effects on the album covers as she isn't the center and she has presented herself in a particular way to create an image which is suitable to the specific audience. Rather than looking at her body a key focus is her face and shes presented in a beautiful mannor rather than a way which presents her as sexy. Her name is seen clearly while the name of the album isn't the center of the piece, which helps me when I am creating my album. She has two names which I think is important feature to these artists and I will need to take into consideration when creating my artist name and image.

Imogen Heap



Her album covers have similar charactersitics as Alanis. There are different effects which are used within the album and she isn't looking at the camera either. It focus's on differet aspects. While the first album creates an unusal image for her but it is related to the music genre which is what I hope to portray in my album cover art.
I like the effects which have been used in the last two albums as they are similar. Black and white with little colour. I would like to try this effect and create an image based on a picture where I am not the center of the album to match the genre which I am appealing to.

KT Tunstall



Now KT Tunstall has different album covers they similarly are in black and white; showing the effects and they aren't focused on her body and focus on the image which she is presenting. Her name is clearly shown and the name of the album is seen. This is different to the two other artists, I think this is because she is a more current artist and is more recent having her albums released in the past ten years.

But I think that I would like to present my artist more similar to Alanis because I think her image is created more clearly and more appealing to the target audience which I am appealing to.

Album Cover Ideas

Here are some of the pictures which we took to be part of the digipack and a possible album cover. I need to choose an album cover which will represent the star and the music which will be on the album, but I need to make it appeal to an audience as well.
This is the picture which I would like to put as the album cover as it has me in the center and it portrays me in an indie/rock kinda way with the background and pose. But there are several other pictures seen below which could also be used as my album cover. I will using the social networking site Facebook to see which one is more popular to a target audience.