Album Cover

Back Cover:

Inside Cover:

Inside Cover (CD Placement):

Final Album Cover:

Album Title Font

Name Designs

I went to the website www.dafont.com to handpick a series of different fonts which I could possibly use for my album cover. When asking my peers and target audience which they preferred and felt complimented the R'n'B genre, the majority of them picked "Brushtip Travis" so I chose that as my main font.

Initial Album Cover

This was the original idea for my album cover and my artist "Hayleigh". I chose this picture to be on the front of the cover as I felt it fit in nicely with the R'n'B genre which I wanted to be associated with my artist and also as it was to be her debut album, I wanted her to be the main focus.
I showed the cover to my peers and others of the target audience and the feedback which I received was:

• the picture chosen is good and shows off the artist well
• the colour used for the background doesn't really match with the R'n'B genre so would be better if it changed
• the font used works well

Artist's Album Covers

Here are some covers from female solo artist's albums.

Above you can see Leona Lewis' cover for her debut album. As you can see Leona is placed in the middle of the cover and her face takes up the majority of the cover with the lighting emphasising her features. This is helpful for a new artist as it enables them to be established and become known. The title of the artist and the album have been strategically placed so that they are made seen but do not take any of the attention away from Leona.

Some more album covers are seen below:

Melanie Fiona - The Bridge

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

Corinne Bailey Rae

Photoshoot

These are some of the pictures that were taken on the first day of the shoot. They are the pictures that are going to be used in the Digipak and on the front of the album. The picture that I choose has to be representative of the genre, which in this case is R'n'B, and it has to also appeal to my target audience. As it would be my artist's first album, I would want her to be the main focus on the front.

Album Covers

As the artist for my music video is a female soloist, I made a collage of famous female solo artists and their album covers. I used covers from a broad range of genres to get a feel for the types of looks that are shown and to get inspiration for my own designs.
One thing I found to be common in all of them, despite the different genres, is that the artist is featured predominantly on the front and so is the artist's name making it easier to establish who they are. This is something decided to consider when making and designing my album cover for my artist.