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- 2. Snow Day! Materials: - Paper - Pencil - Markers, Colored pencils, - Magazines for collage purpose What will we do: - You will look at different album covers and design your own. -We will discuss what makes an album cover so distinguishable? 2
- 3. Examples of Album Covers What makes these album covers so distinguishable? 3 -The ink drawing created by George Hardie of the Hindenburg airship (adapted from a photo taken by Sam Shere in 1937) - This created Led Zepplin’s popularity -George Hardie was paid $76
- 4. Examples of Album Covers What makes these album covers so distinguishable? 4 -Instant hit in 1984 -The title track, Purple Rain, is 8 minutes long (this was cut down from a whopping 11 minutes) - This cover image was photographed at the Warner Bros studio in California, and the background was purposefully made to look like a New York City tenement.
- 5. Examples of Album Covers What makes these album covers so distinguishable? 5 -This famous album cover is packed with bright, psychedelic colors and prominent figures. 58 celebrities, to be exact. How many do you recognize? - The album cover cost around $3,000 to make. That amount might not sound like much, but that would be about $50,000 today. At that time, no album artwork had ever cost that much to create
- 6. 6 -The pink and green letters and unusual font were an interesting choice by this album cover's creative team. This image was snapped in 1955 while Elvis was performing at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Florida. -The Clash created this album as a direct imitation of Elvis Presley’s debut album cover art. The cover embodies rock and roll and is a perfect representation of the rock and roll scene of the late 70s and early 80s.
- 7. 1. Album title -Think of a title of your album, what will you name it? How can you personalize it? Is there a story to it? -Think about font types.
- 8. 2. Create your album cover - Create your album cover design by drawing something that focuses on the title, your personal story, an impact of headlines. You can draw, color, cut out images, just be creative! 3.Songlist (optional) Create a songlist that goes along with your album.