Researching/Producing Album Covers

After making music videos to fit all different theories of Music videos we had the opportunity to make our own album covers to go along with the group which we had created. As we were in a all male group we thought that the best thing to do would be to aim ourselfs at the largest market which there is for all male groups at the moment, this being the boy band pop genre. To make sure we produced a good album cover i decided to carry out some research into this area of music advertisement and looked at some boy bands album covers. 

I decided to have a look at one directions album cover, as they are the most successful boy band in modern music and are recognized for this world wide.

As we can see from the image above of one directions 'up all night' album cover, the album cover features an image of all members of the band in performance, as the boy bands main target audience is teenage girl I believe that this plays a key part in advertisement as they need to catch the attention of the teenage girls, a CD cover with 5 young men on the front of is sure to do exactly that. With this is mind me and my group tried to reproduce this in our group L R A D. 

Me and the group tried to reproduce the performance factor of the group by acting as if we were in concert, with the use of props such as microphones would make this seem more realistic. We also decided to keep the album cover as basic as possible, i believe that this in the modern market can prove to be very successful, this shown in the below image of the up and coming band's 'Vampire Weekend' latest album cover 'Contra'