Saturday, 22 September 2012

De-Constructing An Album Cover

Now when we considered doing a female artist we looked at different successful, fashionable, iconic and seductive women. 

The lyrics in our song refer to sex, addiction, drugs, obsession and lust. Looking at artists like Lana Del Rey give us an idea of how to justify a talented woman. Although Lana Del Rey has a different style to the artist we are doing, it doesn't mean that they can't have a similar image. The reason I picked album covers like this and Blondie's is for the reason that not only are they illustrating the artist by having a  mid shot - displaying their star image, but also the use of colours. 

What I like about the colour choice here is the combination of white and blue. It's eye catching and is something that would stop somebody in a shop and encourage them to come and look at the CD. What I also find inspiring is that with the use of colours, the trees and blue sky in the background she has been illustrated as an english rose. Something that has worked very well. The low camera angle gives her a majestic and powerful image which is something we can replicate in our own artwork.

1 comment:

  1. Excellent considerate deconstruction of album covers. Very thoughtful and pereptive. You have clearly been inspired by the use of fine art in the album covers. You also understand qalbum cover conventions which you demonstrate in your analysis as well.

    Highly Proficeint work.

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