Album Cover Research

Our group decided to do an album cover as one of our ancillary tasks, we decided that this would be the best one from a range of options because it would of been able to bring out the creativity and reep the most awards. We had to design the front of the album cover, the back cover, inside left and inside right. Straight away we decided that the front cover should have our main character Sam (played by Nick) along with the album name '& Then Boom' and the band name 'Iglu & Hartly'.

The second ancillary task we chose was the advertising poster which had to promote the album and artist which was relatively simple, we put in some previous ideas and a screenshot from the video which the audience can relate to. We stuck with the idea of keeping the same theme throughout the album cover and advertising poster which showed continuity which we liked the idea of. The first three sides of the album cover we kept a purple coloured theme which we kept all the way through. The poster colours are bright and eye catching and are most importantly block colours as well which helped with the continuity of our advertisement campaign, with one of our best shots acting as a fade-in towards the lower half of the poster.

The front of the album cover has Sam (played by Nick) clearly in the centre of the frame, to centre him is to further connote his role and importance.





Here are three album covers from very different genres, but all are very well known albums and the artists are very popular. Bob Marley's album name signifies his status in the music industry and Michael Jackson 'HIStory' album is a very clever play on words and his album cover is very iconic because it shows a statue of him which shows his status in the music industry also as being 'set in stone'.

Doing a song by Iglu & Hartly was a good choice because the band aren't very well known and we have more room to work with, I'm hoping we have portrayed the band as very outgoing and simple but artistic.