Album Cover Ideas

Here are a collection of album covers which could be used as inspiration for our own cover. Our music video is meant to be a track from the film (which will probably be called Mercado). The star of the film is Golnessa, a fun and sexy character who enjoys spending time with her friends, performing and dancing. The film will probably have a love interest and is very inspired by the latin and south american genres - hence the music and much of our iconography. Our album, as the film's soundtrack needs to portray all the different themes of both the film and the music video and should star Golnessa, the main character, as a promotion tool for the film. The first album covers are real movie soundtracks which are very useful in terms of institutional information such as credits, film companies, various artists and so on.


This Chicago soundtrack successfully conveys the 1950s period as well as the musical film genre with the dance costumes and the title being in the same font as broadway shows. We liked the use of the extreme long shot as it makes the characters seem much more dominating and attractive, and the 3 characters shown are the film's headliners, actors we quickly recognise. We also liked the background of the big glowing letter, however this is very broadway, and may not fit with our latino theme.
This soundtrack is from a spanish/south american film and the warm colours and dark skin tones are very similar to our music video. We particularly liked the central female character surrounded by the two males as it clearly suggests a story or a plot central the film. The title faded over the top of the image is very effective as it is big and bold but doesn't take away from the main image. We also liked the linear block down the side of the cover with the name of the artists.

Once again all of the soundtracks have the star as the dominating image. Jessica Alba in 'Honey' is dancing to convey the main theme of the film, and the direct address to the camera which Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch draws our attention to the cover and anchors the title 'beautiful creatures'. The black white and red effect used in 'el cantante' makes the film look very sophisticated, arty and beautiful which is quite a contrast to most of Jennifer Lopez' films.

These covers are from real albums and I chose them as inspiration as they are all very feminine, very much like our video. These covers are particularly aspirational for girls for example the bright pibk feathers in the Garbage album and the very pretty and innocent close up of Christina Aguilera. Thse covers also offer great appeal to the boy audience, especially Christina who is directly addressing the audience whilst lying in a bed. I thought the middle cover was great because it uses a group of girls - like our vid - standing in a kind of dancy pose (one of our main themes) and are wearing 40s/50s costumes, a period which we have drawn from with our moulin rouge inspired costumes and our 50s boudoir. The garbage cover is great with the feathers as we also used lots of silks and feathery materials in our video. I think this cover and the 'It girls' cover would be really useful for our back covers which we could fade and put the track names over the top.

And very quickly, i thought the special effect on the iggy pop album cover with the bright clashing colours could look really good on our album, thought a font similar to 'heavy soul' could look very spanish/latino if spelling 'Mercado', and liked the central image as it reminded me of Gee's chair!