Front of Album Cover

Front Cover

I chose to use an image that I had taken for my video as my album cover, this was so that there was a link between my video and the front cover of the album. When I was taking these photos, I originally hadn't planned for one of them to be my album cover, however I knew straight away after taking them that I wanted to use one of them as they were eye catching. I chose this certain image because it was edgy and looked sinister which is what I wanted to portray through Teagan. I also chose this image as it had a lot of free space around the edge, giving a great canvas for the text to sit on. As you can see I have edited the image and added text onto it by using effects and special fonts. I decided that I not only wanted my album cover to be in black and white but also the whole of the digipak. I thought this would look effective and catch the audiences eye when going to buy an album. It also looked better in black and white because it represents Teagan's evil side like in the video. 

I edited the image in Microsoft Word by changing it to black and white and then adding a film grain filter over it, this made it look more shadowed and dark as well as fuzzy. I then added the appropriate text of the band and album name and I thought it would be better to get some unique fonts off a website called dafonts.com. I chose 'Urban Jungle' for the bands name and 'Sacrificial' for the album name. I decided to choose these two fonts as they were edgy and bold, in particular I chose 'Sacrificial' for the words 'cough cough' as this font looks spilled and splattered as it would look if somebody coughed it up. I also changed the dimensions of the image so that it would be the same as an album cover.