Album Cover Plan

This is a plan for the cover of our album that I have drawn. The album is called Torches so I wanted to make the picture thats on the cover relevant to this title but also want it to look artistic and original. We plan to take a picture of my friend, Laura Bennett, in designer shoes, wearing nice clothes, however, using photoshop we are going to replace her head with a lit lightbulb. I was inspired by this idea when looking at the 'Beacon' cover by Two Door Cinema Club. I plan to have the background of the cover black, and then place the picture in a square in the middle of the cover. The name of the band will then be printed above the picture in either orange or white and underneath the picture will be the title of the album in the same font and colour. Like most bands' albums, our album cover will not feature a photograph of the band on the front, instead we want it to feature artwork, this also applies to the rest of the CD elements.

This is my drawing/plan for the back of the case, like the front, the background will be black and the colour/font of the writing will be the same of that which is featured on the front of the album, which creates a house style. At the bottom of the tracklist will be a barcode - obviously for purchasing the album. We also need to feature the logo for the publisher of the music and we will also write the foster the people website at the bottom of the back cover. The back of a CD case has less detail that what is on the front, this is because its purpose is to simply show the audience what songs are featured on the CD, where as the front cover of the album needs to entice the potential buyer into looking at the CD and turning into a buyer.

This is what the spine of the album will look like, it is perhaps the simplest element of the case that we have to create; the majority of CD's only have the name of the band/artist on the spine as well as the catalogue number at the bottom of the spine. Sometimes the name of the album is also featured on it - this is because when the CD's are stacked up, people can easily look down the CD's and see which album is which because it is marked on the spine.





Our actual CD is going to have a print on it that makes it look like a vinyl, I like this idea because it goes with the genre of music that the album belongs to; vinyl's are not sold in many places but the clothes shop Urban Outfitters sells vinyls of not only old records, but new albums aswell for display - they sell frames with them so that the vinyls can be framed and put on the wall. It is for this reason that we have chosen to make our CD looklike a vinyl; our target audience shops in urban outfitters and so would also be the target audience for our album.