How the album cover matches themes in my music video

The album cover matches and links to themes in the music video, by displaying and hinting that the music video will be based on and include settings in one crowded and busy city, and that the artists surroundings are urban and flustered. The fact that the filler of the artists body and face are skyscrapers and clearly a hectic and interesting place, links back to the locations that are included In the video and the types of shots and scenes that are shown. The images of skyscrapers and a city shown within her and a plain background on the rest of the cover suggests and presents that the music video includes a girl who may retreat within herself ,and be very mysterious and unreadable by others by withdrawing within herself. The skyscrapers on the cover could also suggest that the artist is involved and overwhelmed by the city she’s in, and is so trapped by the content of where she lives and the people she is surrounded by, which is a big theme in the music video and her character., this is shown by how she acts in the music video

Annotation The colours of black and white used in this album cover suggests a lack of or absence of feeling and excitement and enthusiasm towards life and prompts this artist’s opinion and themes in her music videos and songs. The black and white effect also presents honest realism, and avoids a possible facade of colour, which would distract the audience from the album covers symbolism and detail. Black and white images also encourage a special and alternative way of showing special emotion

The image of the artist itself, showing her looking up and smirking could potentially represent that she is seeking fascination and intrigue towards something, and is desperately looking for something unique and different and exciting opposing her normal dull days. The artists is shown here as a girl who does seek these things and hints to audiences that her songs include the theme of the artist trying to be fulfilled. The fact that she is smirking represents to audiences that she is intelligent ,and is aware of and notices things that others may not and don't appreciate. Her facial expression suggests an underlying deeper meaning. That she is suppressing her thoughts and feelings and possesses an array of mystery

I like this album cover simply because of the fact it is created in an alternative way, which further adds to the artists alternative style/ personality and implication that her album is extremely deep and relatable by it possessing the alternative characteristics

The process of making the album cover

The process of creating this album cover involved using Adobe Photoshop. I used an original photo taken with a canon camera when I was conducting a photo shoot for the artist, which was in the woods where I was adding to my artist’s image through the location I chose and also the clothes she wore. The next step was adding the black and white filter onto the image. After doing this I replaced the image of the artist with the image of skyscrapers and kept the outline of the artists face and body. I then removed the remaining background which was surrounding the artist and replaced it with a grey tinted blank background. Once I had completed the album’s image, I added to the album’s cover a bold title of the album’s title in black and in all capitals and positioned it on the left hand side of the artist’s body.

How the album cover appeals to my target audience

This album cover is presented as very urban and skilfully edited. The album cover will appeal to niche audiences such as urban and alternative and grunge, because the cover is displayed as unique and different to most mass audience popular album covers, and artists who have glamorous and complicated covers. Whereas this cover is simple yet artistic and suggests themes and a deeper meaning even though the cover appears to be limited and reserved, but that is the aim of this album cover as it links directly to the music video and the artists simple and stable external image and front, like the background of this album cover, yet a complex and troubled hectic internal image and persona. That is shown inside the image of the artist which are the skyscrapers ,who has a calm and unrevealing facial expression.