Album cover analysis

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially-released audio recording product, or album.

The cover of an album is a marketing tool of the artist, its important as it serves the purpose of advertising the artist, and to serve a primary image in the promotional efforts surrounding the product. Example of an good album cover: Disable Artifact in its Own right.


The printed covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12"rpm records and single sets of 12"Lp's, sets of 45 rpm records.








The Beatles Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

For our artist, 'Orphan' the album cover will cover; fabulous 2009 single from the loso's way, 'When the money goes' featuring Jay-z.








We chose this artist and song because are artist 'Orphan' addresses some the issues in the song.


For our photo shoot for are artist, we decided it should be set in a cemetery because in are artists life, he lost his parents at a young age and he lived a hard life, he decided to change his life around and now has joined the music industry. For remembrance he goes to a cemetery to visit his parents, that's why we based the shoot there.

Our initals ideas was to make our target audience see a bad boy image but yet an artists that struggled to get where he has become, allowing him to stand out the crowd.

With the album cover, i think we could of worked on it a bit more by adjusting a few changes, like the colour of the background with are artist and the text, could of been more artistic.

storyboard

Storyboards organise series of illustrations or images which are displayed in sequences, for previsualizing an interactive media sequence.The storyboard is a large part of the production beforehand and is helpful too.

Our storyboard essentially gives us a brief idea of some section of the video before us using camera and filming.It gives us a layout of how are video will be set and what will be going on. Its a plan of what we will do and our combined ideas put together as a group.
For our storyboard, we sat together as a group and discussed and brought up initial ideas to produce for are video.We did come up with a few ideas to be displayed, but we had to come up with something that we all agreed on. we had to keep it limited as it would just look like a whole lot of images and sequences, which would be to difficult and long to proceed.

This does give us a great understanding of what we will produce for a final production.
Here is a preview of part of our storyboard we created as a group:

This was just a few sections of what, we planned to put in are film production, it did take us sometime to come up with a final part, then we an illustration on what we wanted and got ready for filming our official music video. We did occur some changes to the storyboard as we went on due to some change in our groups and things that we could not do because it was too long for our limited time on filming.