In trying to achieve an album cover that is effective, I have deccided to look at other effective and famous album covers. Hopefully this will help me to understand the way in which I should use phtographs etc.. It will also help me to recognise what helps the album cover to be extremely famous and well known.
The first picture is argued to be one of the best well known album covers ever, it is well known all over the world, I know this as people come to london and pose on this very zebra crossing for this very same picture. But why is it so famous and well know? I think the reason in which the album cover is so big maybe because the actual band in themselves were huge and well loved everywhere, but the cover is so simple yet effective. The picture shows the band walking across a zebra crossing and features the name of the band only in the corner, there is nothing flash but it can connect with any audience simply because of this.
The second album cover is for a rock/dance band, they are also an extremely well known band all round the world but there cover is a little more extreme just like there music. They have used a strange picture as there cover almost as if to show that there music is maybe strange and out of the ordinary too. Its extremely effective though, as it is so different it draws you in straight away and makes you want to take a closer look.
I will take both of these features (simple yet easy to relate too, out of the ordinary) into consideration when designing my album cover, as they are both very effective but in very differnet ways, maybe if i can combine the two mine will be even bigger?
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