Album Artwork Draft #1

Now that I've finished filming the band recording, practicing and having fun, it's time to edit a couple hours worth of footage into a music video that lasts a few minutes. Importing almost 20GB of footage onto iMovie for mac takes a lot of time, so while waiting I began drafting my ancillaries. I took a picture of a 'ship in a bottle' with my Canon 550D camera. I took two pictures, one with my Macro Lens and one with my standard 18-50mm lens, with the latter giving the best result. I took it using a deep focus with the sun-setting in the background. Even though the sun-set is out of shot and out of focus, the lighting was perfect for the picture I wanted. I wanted the photography to be incredibly distinctive and unique. I wanted it to be the kind of cover you see and think "Wow", before you even know who the band are. I drew inspiration from Nirvana's "Nevermind" album artwork. I think it works better having the photography as the main attraction to the album art because the band are relatively obscure, and this way the album will attract the attention of people that haven't heard their music before.

This is only an early draft, and I hope to improve it thoroughly. I hope to acquire more photography so I can hopefully make the cover look even more distinctive. I also think a weakness of this first draft is the fonts used for the album title and the band name. They're not distinctive enough, and I want this album art to be unforgettable like 'The Dark Side of The Moon' by Pink Floyd.