CD Cover Plans

My group drew up some plans for our personal images for the CD cover. We looked at all of our ideas and decided what would work best for our digipak. We all thought that the front cover of the CD should feature the artist because this is the most important feature on the cover, and for a pop artist it is important in establishing their image and style. We thought that it would be necessary to establish what the artist looks like because our artist is relatively new, so we aren't established enough to have a cover that doesn't feature the artist.
Two of our plans incorporated a red rose and we discussed that this would be very representational of the 1950's English rose sort of style, we want our artist to be very quintessentially British so this imagery would symbolise the sort of pin up style we want the artist to have. We thought that the repetitive close-ups wouldn't work well because it just looks like there has been a lack of effort put into the planning and editing of the cover. Close-up shots are necessary but too many can just look like there has been no thought put into the cover, also this restricts the amount of editing we can do to the photos.

This was the final plan that we decided to base our Cd cover on (image above) with some small changes. We thought that the front cover would look sophisticated with our artist Ava on the phone, which would be the same phone used in the music video because this will link them together showing the vintage theme throughout the digipak and music video. We want to merge the picture of the legs walking with the dress flowing out to make it look like the dress is flowing from someone who is walking away and then this would give a more dynamic feeling if we blurred the dress and added light behind the artist. We want to edit the lyrics on top of this which will display the  lyrics in a contrasting colour. We thought that the balloons would add to the sense of fun that we portray in the music video, if we use mainly pink and white balloons this would really link. We might also do this shot with our artist holding the balloon to show them in a youthful light. We thought that showing a second close up in a different costume would also vary the cover and show a different style.