Album Cover Research

I've decided that I realy need to start thinking about some ideas for the album cover, we want to be a really conventional, mainstream boyband therefore this is exactly what I have decided to study. Boybands are a lot about the look which is why the shots we get are going to be key to the success of selling this album cover and making it stand out.

When we did the photoshoot we got lots of different angles, positions, Ideas, outfits so that we are not limited in what we have and can use a variety of shot.  We need to have one key image however and the front cover pretty much has to be the boyband at probably a mid shot so that we sell them to the target audience.

Here are a selection of album covers that I have researched of boybands. I think the front cover is pretty clear from all the album covers I found that they all use a group image of the band which is iconic and will sell the band to a mainstream set target audience. The images all connote the band in an individual way and sell the genre, look and style of the band really easily. For our album cover we need a striking image of the whole band that will have a broad reach to a mainstream teenage girl audience primarily and to other secondary audiences. Therfore for the album cover front I want a group shot, in a set, striking position with eye contact to the camera and styled in order to promote the genre.

For the back over the majority of back covers for boybands albums were very plain with not much at all on them. However for out back cover this will not be the case. I want to have another image of the band and tracks down the side which i think would work well.

We are obviously going to have all the set icons such as title, barcode, copyright etc. Which will make the album cover obvious to the audience and as professional as possible.