Final Album Advert

This is our final album Cover that we have created. As the album advert has to have something to catch the audience we thought we would use the same picture from our front cover of our digipak. When we received feedback everyone said the best picture was the front cover one. Also looking at other album adverts we noticed that most pictures are close-ups of the artist or an angled picture. We went with the same theme of the sky blue background as we wanted it to match our digipak. Also from the feedback most people liked how the sky is in the background, they said it brings out the genre.  

We have also included a 5-star rating as seen on his jacket. This is to show how good the album is so users may buy it. When we looked at other albums we saw that most of them had this rating so we decided to put it in our one to make the cover look more professional. We have also included a Twitter and Facebook symbol to advertise the cover and show the artists webpage. We noticed that in other covers they just had the Facebook sign and then put a “/ad the artists name” in this case “/pretty boi”. We also included some feedback that we were given.

Bellow are print screens of the stages we went through and effects we used in order to create our final album cover. 

This printscreen i have taken shows how i adjusted the brightness and contrast of the image to get the effect that i did. As the original picture was to light i decided to slightly increase the brightness. By changing the contrast the colours of the picture stand out making the picture come to life.

This is the cover we made before the final one. You can see that the writing was moved to near the artists head. As we couldn't think of another place to place it, it had to here. However it was slightly hard to read. From our feedback that we received our target audience said that they couldn't read the writing as it was slightly squashed. Also they said it rewind the picture. We then decided to move the writing on his jacket. this allowed more space for us and we could enlarge it slightly so it could be seen.

Also as this is a cover, another piece of feedback we got was that the ITunes and facebook sign was a bit to big. It looked funny and also rewind the picture as this would be the main focus.

Feedback given for Album Cover

-        The album cover looks very professional. I like the picture you have used for the cover, it makes it look eye catching. I also like how you have the sky in the background. To improve i dont think you need the HMV logo as then you can see to many logos and also makes the picture look less eye-catching.

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 I like how you have done the sky effect it blends in with the picture nicely. I also like how the artist is looking down almost looks as if there is audience there. To improve i think you need to move the writing under “Out Now” as it looks to squashy

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I like how you have increased the brightness of the picture. I also like the font you have used for his artists name. To improve try to work on the layout of the writing as it is looks very squashy. 

Overall i think we have created a successful album cover. The effects we have done makes the poster look creative and professional. I think we gained good feedback as it helped us create the final product.