Creative Journey - Front Cover

As we can see at the start of the creative journey I started with three photos that i took that i believed were the best for what I wanted to do. They were clear and defined photos that you could see Jack and tell it was him.

So then i looked at album covers with an image of someone on the front. I came across the Jamie T single one and like the use of the dark colours and the white text as it was defined and you could clearly read it.

I then moved onto the Arctic Monkeys album cover and like the black and white effect used on the photo, again they used the white defining text that was clear and stood out. The photo used on the front cover was like the one I am looking to use for my front cover.

Throughout the rest of the creative journey I explore the back back ground and white writing and noted that it was clear to read. I liked this use of white text and thought they i needed to use this on my front cover.

I then came across the cover photo for the single that we were covering for the music video. It is the photo of Aiden Grimshaw with a green floral background. This photo is like most of mine where i have a clear defined artist as the front cover. 

So having looked at the different front covers i have come up with 3 potential front cover that i like and that reflect areas of the journey in them. One of these will be my front cover that i choose to put on my digipak.

Creative Journey Exapnsion: Fonts

Creative Journey Expansion: Colour Scheme

Creative Journey Expansion: Borders

Journey In Draft Cover Creation

I started by looking at the images from the photo shoot and the one in top left really caught my eye. I then saw the Frank oceans blonde album and really like the simplicity of it. I was originally going to use the top left image in that format. I then looked at fonts and colour schemes I really liked the idea of a black and white sort of polaroid effect on the image. I then went off the idea of polaroid's. I then looked at the way the Orwell's have used fonts and borders in two of their album covers. I was going to copy these two factors in my own cover. This wouldn’t work with the image being colourful so I looked at more darker images from the shoot. I liked this one above the text as it was facing the camera in a similar way to Dan crolls Album which is on the bottom middle of the board. I then really liked the Dan Croll colour scheme but after looking at M83's colourful album cover it kind of put me off. Again this idea went nowhere. I then explored and looked at Aiden Grimshaw's album cover. I liked the use of greenery. I then used photos from the short that featured greenery. This idea again never materialised. I then came across the work of the arctic monkeys and Kasabian first album and reverted back to a black and white colour scheme. I tried this without a border and with a border and with moving the font around. I then finally decided on the bottom right. Using Frank oceans border theme and the Orwell's font with the colour scheme from Kasabian and AM.