We have mentioned Eliza Doolitle earlier on in our blog as we used the music video for 'pack up' as a form of inspiration in our detailed analysis. Eliza's music genre is very similar to that of our chosen song in the way that it has a care free vibe giving off a 'feel good' atmosphere because of this we thought it would be a good idea to research into her CD covers as it is more than likely that hers will bring some inspiration for our own.
Confirming our original assumption, Doolittles CD cover presented aspects which were exactly what we wanted to incorporate in our CD cover.
The picture on the left shows Eliza's album cover which is an example of abstract art, it includes different photographs of things obviously close to her heart such as Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge in New York (the place to make it big), London's Big Ben therefore showing patriotism as Eliza is from England and also a leg with a hightop sneaker Eliza's signature piece of clothing. The picture on the right is for Eliza's Pack up single, this also includes different aspects of Eliza's personality such as the sneakers and the tribal print yet this cover gives off more of a hippy theme with its inclusion of sunshine, flowers and rainbows.
We have taken ideas from both of these CD covers as the first one has inspired us to use a photograph of Matt (the male performer) taken on the bonet of an abandoned car at the Rusholme mansion. We intend to make the whole picture black and white and then through the use of photoshop we would like to create a 'cartoon' image of Matt making him look almost drawn and then taking aspects of the photograph and adding in some colour. The photograph on the right inspired us to find photographs on the internet of things such as suns, cartoon like flowers and signposts and adding them into the photograph therefore creating an abstract and hopefully unique theme.

Potential CD Covers

We then looked at the above CD Cover by our chosen artist Jason Mraz, the theme throughout his album was in fact similar to that of ours which is to run a 'cartoon' theme. Although the overall effort put into the cover is probably minimal because it is high in simplicity we believe it is very successful because it is something we as a group have never seen before. Even the use of the slogan "we sing, we dance, we steal" adds to this simple intelligence. The triple structure of the verb phrases are striking to the audience therefore making the CD cover even more appealing. By looking at this CD cover it has definatly confirmed for us to go forth with our idea of a cartoon almost hand drawn look.