Ancillary - Album Artwork Final Designs

The main noticeable change we made to the front cover was simply the positioning and style of the font for our artists name. Despite loving the idea of having the name designed in thread, when it came to placing it onto the background image, it just looked a little too busy and distracted the eye from the main title. I'm pretty please with the way this turned out in the end, as I think it represents our music video perfectly and also maintains the themes running throughout the album. 

As we had a front cover that focused on our music video, we thought that different aspects of the case should represent different aspects of the tracks on the album. The birdhouse used on the back cover symbolises the bird calls heard in the first few seconds of the opening track, a reference to nature and tranquillity that we thought worked really well with the front cover. We also added all the usual things found on album artwork, such as the copyright information and links to websites, as well as the record label logo.

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Ancillary - Poster Final Product

Above is the final version of our poster designed to work as a magazine advertisement for the release of Amanda Rogers' 'new' album. Since we decided not to use the thread on the album cover, we thought it would be good to use it here to maintain the iconography seen in the music video for the albums lead single 'This Beauty', whilst also using a different image to the one seen on the front cover of the album that allows the viewer to get a visual representation of the artist. As it also uses the image seen within the album, further connections can be drawn once the album is purchased. We made the decision not to have any performance dates on the poster due to the nature of it being shown before the release date and tour, which with an independent artist such as Amanda, would follow the release of an album. Having critiques of the music is also one of the common conventions for an album advert pre-release, especially when the music is as diverse as what is seen on her album. There are a few things that I think are not exactly right but overall, I think it matches the themes and iconography seen in our music video and on the pre-existing album and represents Amanda and her music in a positive light.