Inspirational Album Covers

In my project, it will not not be me just creating a music video, I will also be creating a CD album cover and also an insert for my CD album. Before attempting my creating of a CD cover, I have looked at numerous CD albums from my own collection and also from the internet to give my self some inspiration.


There are two CD albums that
have came to mind and have also gave me inspiration in the format on how to publish mine is Oasis's album "Don't Believe The Truth" and Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People Say I am, I am Not"





When I create my Album Cover I would like to create it in the style of these two albums. My idea for the album is to take the photo in black and white like these two albums. I believe shooting a picture in black and white gives the picture a bit more of rugged look to it and gives it that uniqueness that other photos do not have. Due to various shots in my video being shot in black and white, I believe it would be suitable for my album also to be shot in this saturation.

My song is about a Boy Friend and his Girl Friend going through a break up due to things not working in their relationship (The lyrics of this song backs this theory up). So I believe shooting in black and white also gives a semi depressing look, here is an example of how using black and white really does change the mood of the photo.

An idea the Arctic Monkeys album cover gives me, it is a very simple but effective cover. This shot would not take very much preparation, there is no complex editing or camera techniques, it's just a simple filter over the picture with no complexity to it. This is the type of style in which I would like to produce my album cover, very simple, only the one person in the photo and in black and white. I would also like to use the filter which is shown on the Oasis album cover. There is a black circle around the image which gives the affect that the audience is looking through the camera lens at the image. I really like this idea of doing this because its almost the fact that you are there looking at the photo, so this also has given me inspiration.