We looked at AC DC and one of their photos. We Looked at how to take pictures that fit our aesthetic for the artist we are going to music.
When thinking of metal you think skull on t shirt, leather jacket, chains, however this band has one of the artists in a schoolboy outfit and the photo is bad quality, which makes them look like grunge, slightly different to all the other heavy metal bands.
We then looked at one of Ariana Grande’s photo album covers.
This one was very posed, elegant, aimed more at girls in that respect, black and white very neat and clean, sat in an elegant position which is not a natural sitting position, which shows quite easy to listen music, pop. What you’ve got to try to do is show a bit of a story, try to portray the song or artists’ journey.
We then looked at the famous beatle picture of them crossing abbey road, outside abbey road studios, in London. This shows where they’re based, from Britain. They’re dressed in different colours and dressed in suits, however Paul McCartney is not wearing shoes and socks, which shows he is dead, done by photoshop because he died during the making of the album, and all walking in the same position.
Stories really help sell artists, if there is a backstory it can become huge. Masks/covering their faces can be really powerful because people want to know what they look like and who they are, it gives the artists more streams and people listen to them more. To get a good picture of someone you need to have them standing/sitting/posing in uncomfortable pictures to make them stand out from others.
Looking at Harry styles’ golden album cover, there is a hand bottom left corner, this add mystery, gets conspiracy theories going, adding mystery to your cover helps
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