Having researched, examined and analysed various pieces of album artwork; including all those available by Taylor Swift, I decided to compile a few rough ideas to gain a better, more visual and realistic picture of what mine could look like.
I found from looking at Taylor Swift's album covers, that they are all very simple and extremely conventional. They have the artist, artist name and album/single name on the cover, and with a plain background.
I however, want to alter this, though in a way that could still be realsticly a Taylor Swift cover. I'd like to make it busier and more interesting to look at, with more of an insight into the pragmatics of the song and style of the video, but in order to do this I have to emphasise the traditional conventions.
I plan to have the artists name at the top, in Taylor Swift's writing:
"Revenge" I've planned to have in red, to make it stand out as it really is the key word and idea for fans to consider and understand when listening to this song and watching the video. I'm also considering having it overlap the image of the artist's face to emphasise that importance even more.
The main image of the artist itself will be a close-up of her face. She will have reasonably heavy make-up, the iconic curled hair and a straw hat as featured in the video. Her facial expression should be decoded as angry, resentful, hurt - all linking to revenge, and there should be some strong red colouring in this image - whether it's lipstick or possibly I might be able to work some more red in there somewhere. Maybe a part of her pupils, although this may be too postmodern for Taylor Swift, I'd have to experiment.
The background image should consist of bright green grass, and a pale yet bright blue sky to juxtapose the darker 'revenge' storyline. It will play with the ideology of there being a superficial modern society - that although everything is perfect on the outside, there is a lot more depth to things, and breaking the stereotype that females are weak. They can be strong yet still feminine.
To work more into the cover, I'm thinking of involving a picnic bench which was used for a small fraction of the music video. It's outdoors so it will still be able to convey summer, and has built relevence to the song. The plan is to have multiple images of the artist using different uses of body language to convey a sense of anger and plotting. I might try to blur these images slightly to create a sense of desperation and francticness - insecurity, again to build up an insight to the storyline, or maybe not, again; I'll have to experiment.
I found that designing even this extremely rough outline in Paint was difficult, as I hadn't fully pictured every detail in my head - where exactly the text would be placed for example, not to mention that personally I have no idea how to merge multiple images into one image, so I'll have to do more research to look into this to see if it's realistic. If it is, I'll probably have to have a few trials to perfect it - and if not, I'll have to adapt or entirely change my first idea.
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