What I have Found out so far;
From all of the work that I have done so far that is genre
specific, I have found out that I need to incorporate some sort of artwork that
is appealing to the demographic and the genre that I choose, it also has to
have a close link to the albums title and the artists styling that I am trying
to portray. This was apparent in the Ella Fitzgerald album artworks where she
chose to apply drawing based images onto the main cover. I think that this
worked well, and to try and make this work just as well on my cover I have to
ensure that I make sure that I choose the colours correctly as this was the
main item that made the album artwork for Fitzgerald successful.
I did though, learn when colours come into play that less is
more and just because there are so many accessible to hand does not mean that
they should be applied to the whole Digipak. As, it ends up working against the
overall feel and overcrowds the covers. From the genre that I looked at I think
that It would be successful if I started to consider a narrative that I could
explore on the cover as it would help to take the people who purchase it on a
journey.
I think that I should also try and start looking at a font
that keeps with the whole theme, which I can see was handwritten as it has a
very natural feel. If I could I think that like the Nash artwork with the house
that was mystical, I could try and present the cover as very mystical and
fairy-tale-ish as it would give off the vibe that the overall thematic is a
utopian fairy-tale. I do though want to try and avoid being too cliché with
this vibe as it may start to become slightly Disney. The other artwork that I looked
at such as the Jones cover was also very understated and I think that this
helps to create musical integrity for the artist. I would like to try and create
this seeing as I created a brief that envisioned my artist as a female that has just come out of music college.
From the Digipaks i learnt that......
The swiss colour scheme would work very well as it is understated but is clean and precise so will work with the drawing element that i have created. I think though, where I want to use red in the album cover I do have to try and be careful with the color so that i avoid the mainstream route. I also learnt that too many images of the artist is generally what mainstream artists using.
