FINALIZED IDEA FOR FRONT COVER

We have made a vast improvement with our album cover since last Monday ...

On Thursday during my study period I decided to give drawing up my personal ideas for the front cover another go ...

It turned out to be a great success !!! 

     This is what I created in my study period

After showing this to Georgia, we both agreed that this held all the symbolism and connotations from our music video and has to some extent representations of our chosen artist.

Georgia then took this home and scanned it onto her computer added on the font that we had discussed and agreed on.

The image with the added font . The artists name and the title of the single is a piece of intertextuality taken from Madonna's 'Like A Virgin' Album where her 

name is recognizably bigger than the song title.

                   

Georgia and I also communicated via imessage ( A text messaging service for iphone users)on possible ideas for the background of the drawn image...

Georgia then emailed me theses to look at...

I then took the images and played around with them ...

I made the silhouettes darker on 'Paint'.

We realize that it is compulsory to use 'Photo shop' in order to finalize our creation of our digipak so we will take all these little creations and ideas into the mac room when we get the chance to pull the whole thing together.

I have also taken the time to look at the

similarities and differences between the 

front covers of Madonna's 'Like A Virgin'

 and our original Vince Kidd version.

ALBUM COVER

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF AN ALBUM COVER? 

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

EARLY YEARS OF ALBUM COVERS 

In 1938, Columbia Records hired Alex Steinweiss as its first art director, he was credited with inventing the concept of album covers and cover art, replacing plain covers used before. After his initial efforts at Columbia, other record companies followed his lead. By the late 1940s, record albums for all the major companies featured their own colorful paper covers in both 10" and 12" sizes. Some featured reproductions of classic art while others utilized original designs. 

This was a brown sleeve that was used on records covers before images and fine art  were used.

This is one of Alex Steinweiss' creation  which is more developed than the one above.

An early album cover

A current album cover

Georgia and I have not got very far in terms of designing an album cover ...

 HOWEVER

during one of our study periods on Monday we came up with a few ideas that may feature on our album cover...

Images and notes of things we came up with ...

cherries - symbolic for virginity, the term "popping your cherry"
It would be an ironic feature on our album cover because our subject matter
flips the focus onto the male.

condoms - symbolic when thoughts look at intercourse.

We didn't come up with very much together as our minds did go a drift from our work ...

I have taken some time to look and analyse the album cover of Madonna's 'Like A Virgin', to
see if using this process would give me any extra ideas for the creation of our album cover.

These are my personal ideas for our album cover...

Silhouettes - To connote the facelessness of the subject matter and the fact that anyone can become a victim of peer pressure.

Speech bubble - symbolizing the many confused thoughts that were going through our male 
protagonists head in our music video.

Condom - similar to the reason that Georgia and I came up with together 

                         

WE AIM TO PLEASE ...

On Monday my media class were given the freedom to either do blogs or filming during our 3 hour time slot of media, Georgia and I decided to head up to the mac room ...

                                                           

We both did separate tasks in practice and preparation of editing our music video.

 TASKS:-

GEORGIA decided to dabble on 'Toondoon'  in practice of turning some of our shots into animation.

&

I decided to go on imovie which is one of our possible editing software to look more into effects and other things that could make our music video high quality editing wise.

Above are a few images I took whilst playing around with the effects.