This is my first Album cover design, because this was only a practise I got the picture from the internet. I used photoshop to edit the original picture and ad the text. I used this picture because i felt the contrast and colour balance was a convention of indie genre. The dull but bright colours help achieve emotion for the film, they are dull and when i look at them i get this sad emotion. Putting the artists name and song title on this cover was obvious, titles are conventions of album covers and are seen on a majority I chose to use a fishbowl effect on the title, fishbowl photography is extremely popular in indie cultures, capturing an image from the eyes of a fish bowl adds originality to the photograph. I feel this has added originality for the cover. I liked that this picture wasn't of the ocean, or water instead it was completely the opposite, in the foreground appears to be a close up of a bush of some kind, and in the distance there seems to be a variety of buildings possibly suggesting a town may be there. I thought the bush could be a code for a separation between the artist who is on this side of the bush and the city in the distance being a place where she wants to be. However she can't get there because her life on this side of the separation hasn't finished yet or is too complicated to move on. This also connects with the narrative in the story. When the picture and the font are connected it could resemble her life now, pure and innocent in the freedom of the ocean opposed to the life she is entering of consumerism and wealth in the city. Again this is why i put the artist name and song title in different colours and fonts, her life may be pure now which is why i used white and she may be looking at a future that isn't pure. I chose to put the artists website on the cover because it is simply another marketing mechanism, if people don't buy her album they will still notice the website and may decide to check that out.
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