Album Cover Plans

Following on from researching covers, we then planned out covers, drawing them out, marking them up with rules of thirds, and annotating what will be where on the covers, in doing this it will help us to not go off on a tangent when taking photos, these plans provide us with a basic outline of a few ideas to work from/to.

We will use the walls in the practice room to be the background for the album cover because it adds a sense of continuity from the video into the album cover, almost like a house style. It ties it all together. We have initially planned to have us sat on the floor as the plan states, but we're leaving room for improvisation regarding our positions and photoshop effects. We will be placed in relation to the rule of thirds regardless.

We plan to have the title of the album at the top in the middle, and will use the same font for it that we will use elsewhere in the project. Placing the title and band name in this area will make it stand out, which is vitally important with the cover.

We have a couple of plans for the back cover too, the initial ideas are that it will be the wall that the front cover is being taken on, with the song titles stuck to the walls in even spaces from top to bottom, then all the small print overlaid on photoshop elements. The second idea is that we have a setlist wrote out with all the tracks on it, like a gig situation, and a picture of this on a black background, once again with the small print overlaid on photoshop. We feel like this idea fits with the ethos of the genre too, the scruffy teenage bedroom vibe.

The spine of the digi-pack will the same background as the back cover, but with the band and album title overlaid in the same font as the front cover. It will also have the record label's logo on the bottom and Biffy Clyro's logo on the top.

Here are the sketches i drew out for the plan...