Album Task

The task this week we had to have a practice at creating a piece of album art work, the folowing stages are explanations and techniques I used to create my album cover:

 

1. Get a band name: We had to use a random name that came up on a wiki link, I feel that 'The Accreditation Institution' wasn't actually that bad as it could be suitable for a band of somesort.

 

2. Get an album title: For this, again a random quote was presented and we had to select the last four or five words. However, although 'shake hands with a clenched fist' sounds a bit wordy for an album title, I do like it as it doesn't make complete sense as that action would be impossible. This aspect though is quite fitting for an album title as album titles are often quite misleading and strange, 

 

3. Get your image: Again, for the image it was a random choice on Flickr, having to choose the third photograph that came up. This woodland scene was quite easy to use as its simplicity meant that it was appropriate for most album overs and easy to work with, not displaying too much of a notion for the band name and album cover to fit with.

 

4. Drop image and words into Photoshop:We then had to get creative and adjust the image and text how we wanted to. For the image, I decided to keep it simple and just invert the image. I feel this looked good for the cover, as it highlights particular aspects of the image, as well as giving a solemn and eerie feel. This fitted in with the text as the words 'institution' and 'clenched' initially has a negative feel to them. For the text, again I kept it very basic and clear in order to be readible when ontop of the image. Therefore, I used, white bold text, capitalising the band name, yet keeping the album title text small so that the focus is on the band.
 

So here is the final album cover i created, yes it is a bit blurry, but im sure the real artwork will be a lot better!