WILDFLIES ALBUM COVER

WILDFLIES are the band that I have created to feature in my magazine! I did a photoshoot with them in natural surroundings to match the 'wild' name!

Here are the photographs:

This photo is of Emma.

She looks natural, content, and girly (with the flower in her hair, inspiration from Rhianna's cover with flowers as a headband) and clearly loves music due to the guitar.

Her rings add a touch of orientalism which is something coming into fashion right now - she could represent that side of the band.

Her simple white shirt denotes purity.

Charlie is playing the drums in a tree here in this photo!

It makes it appear as though he has 'natural' talent, but also that wherever he goes, he takes music with him.

I like this suggestion that the photo gives, and I'd like to use that perhaps in my DPS.

Because Wildflies are my main feature of the magazine this month, I decided that I would need to design an album cover so that I could put it on either my contents page or DPS to make the band seem more realistic.

These are two other images I also did in the photoshoot above.

I wanted to use one of these for the Album Cover!

This photo is one of my favourite pictures - out of the whole project! The reason for this is that there are two ways it can be viewed. The first way is simply that the three are great friends and spend a lot of time together.

The second way, is a lot less simple. The girls are best friends, the male is in a relationship with the middle female, but having an affair with the outside one, the '3rd wheel'

Do you see how the second suggestion can be portrayed in that way? Because this was an assumption that a lot of people made when they saw the photograph, it means I can use it and it would only cause necessary confusion if I labelled the album "it's complicated."

I really like this photograph too. It shows the three bandmates as a close, friendly team, rather than decieving each other like the other one.

This photo also shows each of their individual talents, with Ellie as the singer with a microphone, Emma with her head right next to the guitar, and Charlie with his drumsticks.

One of the best things about this photo is because the three of them aren't obviously holding their instruments, it comes to mind that it is simply natural for them to be able to play them well, and the natural surroundings enhance this.

In the end, I decided to have the first photo as my album cover because that way the more friendly one would feature large in my magazine. It is more innocent and therefore would appeal to my target market a lot easier! Another reason why it would appeal to them easier is simply because it is obvious. All of it's contents show that they are a band with their instruments, and who plays which ones. In the above one, it doesn't suggest anything The anonymity of their turned backs also can be confusing for younger ones, as the fear of the unknown is strong at their age.

I analysed all of the photographs within the parts of my magazine they were to feature in my big blue book.