Practice album Cover!

okay, so we were set a task to follow the Chief Examiner- Pete to create our own album covers using his steps, as I am a fool, I thought we just had to make an album cover on word or something from our imaginative creative minds, but I should of actually read the task properly,so I have ALSO done that one, So I may as well show it at the end of the post.

So this is Pete's task:

Make your own album cover

If you are making an album cover as part of an A level task, you need some practice. One of my favourite tasks, which proves that anyone can be creative, is this one, also known as the internet CD cover meme creator, to be found in various locations on the web. Here's what you do:

1. Get a band name:

Use the title of a randomly-generated Wikipedia article. You HAVE to use the title of the page you land upon!

2. Get an album title: 

Use the last four or five words from the last quote on this page of random quotations. 

3. Get your image:

Use the random images  generator from Flickr's last seven days you HAVE to use the third image, whatever it is

4. Drop image and words into Photoshop:

Adjust your band name and album title by changing the font, colour and size and maybe putting a bit of layer effect on. Resize your image so that it is the right size for the front of an album. If you want, you can turn colour into black and white, but you can’t add anything else to the image!

5. Upload it to one of the random generated CD cover sites

So I am going to show you step by step my results:

1. Get a band name...

I got the Band name Zantop Air Transport, Apparently it is an airline company that was in america for 4 years in the 60's. Very random but has a snazziness to it.

2. Get an Album Title....

'Bear the best fruit'  a very odd album title name but there is something symbolic about it and philosophical about the phrase that makes you think deeply about it. I like it.

Not going to lie, this is actually a really fun task, I think I'm enjoying it too much!

3.Get your image...

Proof 

Not happy with this, there was so much hope and promise for the album cover and then I get a zoomed in flower !!! I was excited that I was going to get like a street or landmark but I got a flower. Maybe I take the last 'this is actually really fun' comment back ! joking aside I wish it was more interesting however, this flower may be Extremely interesting to someone else. But actually taking a second look it is a beautiful flower and the colours are brilliant, so thanks Hugh for the picture !

4. Drop images onto Photoshop...

As I don't have Photoshop on my computer at home I used online picmonkey- Thanks Anna for the website!

Now I am not going to lie... I'm quite loving the CD album cover! Although nothing to do with our actual music video !! It actually looks good for a practise, I didn't edit the picture in any way because the filters didn't help the colours at all but instead made them look Horrible! So I just left it and added the text and cropped the photo! I really like the text font's, both of them, but especially the circular font, I think that looks really cool and I chose the colours to match the flower, of course, and therefore tie the whole thing together. And technically the flowers are the fruit of plant and the flower is beautiful so therefore they have born the best fruit!

5...

Now again like a fool, I thought we had to look for a random cd generator but its upload to one, to my Horror I click the first one and see the first random generated cd cover was a disgusting, huge tarantula! and seeing as I have a Major phobia of spiders, I nearly died of cardiac arrest when it popped up right on my screen:

This is absolutely DISGUSTING AND SICKENING!

But any ways... That was extremely fun, other than the last bit but I don't think we will be using it for our album cover, because it really does not fit in anyway!

One last thing... This is the album cover that I originally done:

I did it in black and white to tie in with our music video which may be in black and white because it looks a lot cleaner and the focus on the gloves in the middle tie in with the Muay Thai boxing theme that we are going for. Again as I don't have Photoshop I had to use word and Paint which was not to bad, but obviously Photoshop will give a more professional look. I do like my album cover because it is really simplistic which is similar to Swedish House Mafia's album covers which are really simple and the black and white theme is also similar to their album covers:
         

What I really like about their album covers is that they always have a group of three things on there mainly three circles which represent the three members of the band !