The Singles Cover

As I have stated before as well as doing a digi-pack cover, that me and Chloe will be doing a singles cover as well to go with the song we are doing, “E=MC Hammer”. For the digi-pack, the cover and all of its inside is being had drawn artwork by yours truly, but for the singles cover we are just going to photograph it. The idea for the cover I have taken from the band Hard-Fi’s album cover for “Killer Sounds”.

Hard-Fi "Killer Sounds" cover.

The reason for this is because in the video we have the people dressed in skull masks dancing around during the video while the band are playing, and the idea for the cover would be to take these masks and lay them out in a similar fashion to the “Killer Sounds” cover, but obviously not have the picture as bright and vibrant as the Hard-Fi cover, but to instead give it a more dark tone to fit with band and have relevance to the video. The reason for this is because single covers fall into different covers for what they look like and what they have portrayed on their cover. Single cover will either have an image on the front of it in relation to the music video that goes with it (which is what we are doing for our cover, see below for more examples) or it could be artwork similar to the album the single has been taken from (see below for examples) or it can be a completely different image all together.



The singles covers both reflect the music videos that accompany them. The Gorillaz "Stylo" cover features the car that is in the video and the Pulled Apart by Horses cover for "Yeah buddy" is actually an image taken from the video itself for the single.

The top image is the album cover Foo Fighters "Wasting Light" withe the accompanying images singles taken from that album, with these images showing how a singles cover can reflect the artwork taken from the digi-pack

This is the cover for Biffy Clyro's single "Mountains" and shows how singles covers can have their own individual artwork.

 Out of all three options we are choosing the first one and having an image that reflects what's going on in the music video, it is an option that is easy to do and at the same time allows for a lot of creativity, in terms how we can arrange the masks and the background we could take the picture against. Also we will be taking pictures of the shoot so if that idea for the cpver goes wrong we could do what they "Yeah Buddy" cover (see above) has done and take a still from the video itself for the ocver, which would act as a sort of contingency plan.