Tuesday 23 November 2010

Album Cover Research

Research

I browsed the internet for different Album Covers of different genres that would inspire my final piece below is some pictures I found while searching.
I decided to base my Genre on a metal style band and then after seeing a Japanese album cover I came to the conclusion to make a Japanese metal band. The style of the band graphics is very dark with a Gothic kind of feel to add to the scary death effect of rock/metal. I decided to use Adobe Photoshop for both my pieces as I found after researching that it would be the easiest program to use for editing my Animated web banner and Album Cover. I also decided to save my album cover as a PDF file for the best possible viewing quality and to save my web banner as a gif as it's animated and is the best file type to use for animation.
I chose my band name as "Epiphany" as I belive the meaning of the word has alot of effect and stands out by catching the eye and gets the reader to think about it's meaning.
I called the Album name Homicidal Fate as I belive it has a very strong effect on the reader and it relates to my album genre of rock/metal with a gothic evil feel to it.