Album Cover
Do you have a favourite album?
In 1938 Alex Steinweiss created the idea of adding artwork to album covers. Prior to this time records had plain covers with the artist and album name printed on them. 'Cover Art' went on to play an important part in marketing music as people often saw the cover in shops before hearing the record. In many cases the artwork would inspire them to listen to the record in the first place. In today's world album art comes in thumbnail format on MP3 players, Spotify and iTunes as oppose to the 12" record covers of the 20th Century. |
TASK
You will photograph a new cover for an album of your choice.
Before you do this listen to the album. Does the album make you think of any particular scenes or subjects? Does the music portray a particular emotion?
Your picture can be of anything you want, a landscape, person, object or something abstract.
When you take the photograph bare in mind that afterwards it will need to be cropped square in Photoshop. You only need to take the photograph for your homework. We will crop it, add any text and Photoshop it during lesson.
Take at least 5 photos, you will pick the best one during the lesson.
You will photograph a new cover for an album of your choice.
Before you do this listen to the album. Does the album make you think of any particular scenes or subjects? Does the music portray a particular emotion?
Your picture can be of anything you want, a landscape, person, object or something abstract.
When you take the photograph bare in mind that afterwards it will need to be cropped square in Photoshop. You only need to take the photograph for your homework. We will crop it, add any text and Photoshop it during lesson.
Take at least 5 photos, you will pick the best one during the lesson.