Cd cover research and photo ideas

Whilst analysing similar artists, I also browsed around to find any cd covers that caught my eye, or that I found intertesting and gave me ideas.

In this cd cover, I found the setting of the image to be quite visually capturing. As my music video was set in a rural location, almost always outdoors I liked the idea of having a wooded area or beautiful scenary as my front cover, portraying the mise-en-scene and setting that was imperitive in the video.

I came across this cd cover over internet images. The reason it caught my eye was because it wasn't like anything I'd seen before. Although it is very plain, I felt the image of the tape to be quite effective. This cd cover then gave me an idea for my own back cover. I wanted to portray either a book, or a very dishevelled looking book with the track listings on the pages. This would then follow in to link the image to the song, representing 'the story'.

For my front cover, one idea I had was this image above. I was either going to keep it as is with different places the iconic star was sitting or standing. My other idea was to use photoshop and cut out the image of the female. I was then going to put each small image onto one of the photos above so that the end result would be one image of the stars but the image of the women was to be repeated several times on different postitions of the stone steps.

However, I changed my mind about this sencond idea, because when I started to cut the small image out on photoshop, I found it to be incredibly difficult due to the size of it.

Here are another two photos that I took as ideas for either the front or back cover of my cd single. The reason behind this idea, is that I wanted to have images that linked back to the video, enabling the audience to link the connections between the two. My initial idea for this was to create and portray love; i.e. the holding hands, with the symbolic book that is present throughout the video.

I then chose against these images as they both didn't have the eye catching quality or appeal that would make my audience want to buy the cd.

The photos that I finally chose for my end product was:

With editing, cropping and developing these photos, these were then the two finals that I chose for my end result product. The image of Libby; the artist, was used as the front cover in order for the audience to recognise her from the video. By having the artist looking just off camera it allows the audience to connect with her as it is visually eye catching.

The second image of the book I used for the back cover of the single cd. I cropped the image so that only half the book (a page) was seen. I edited out the writing and put the track listings on the page to look as if they had been written on. This, I felt gave the back cover a less formal look to it as if it was hand nurtured and again symbolising the story that is prominent in the music video.