Album cover idea 1

We decided on the picture of the female character from our music video standing on the beach with two red balloon. We took this image while we were at the beach filming and we think its a really nice picture for a front cover as it is fitting with the music video and ties everything together well. We edited the image in instagram and this gave us a old fashioned simple and relaxing filter to it which links with the old fashioned hand held style filter we have used during some of the music video which shows the couple together. We used a picture of catherines character as it is the main focus of the music video and we want this to follow on through to the album artwork. We had her holding to red balloons and this is a iconic symbol that we are wanting to make frequent throughout the music video and advert and album artwork. We had a look at different positioning of the texts for the front cover and considered various different possibilities of where to put the artists name as well as the album name.We decided it was better to have the artists name bigger than the album title as this is the main part of it and the more important thing. However we have also tried have both of the writing quite large as this makes them more eyecatching and easier to read. We chose to used black font as this stands out against the background and makes it easier to read aswell as contrasting nicely against the light pastel style colours that are in the beach image. However we didn't want to take any focus away from the image of the female character holding the balloons as it is an important thing that we want to be able to be seen properly. I like this style of design because I think the 'the root of memories' album title flows well with the image and fits in perfectly at the bottom of the album cover. However I think that the artist name may be taking too much focus off the image and taking too much room up so we are going to make it smaller and in a different position in our next example idea.