Above are a few album covers of inspirational bands, including The Veronicas, The Pierces, Soho Dolls and The Like. As you can see from the album covers, the album covers are either photos of the band or just artwork. For our album cover we will do one with a photo of the band as we want to create an artist identity as a debut artist, something similar to the covers on the first row. All the covers are actually very long shots, which you may not expect for album covers. You may expect album covers to be close ups of the artists as you want to be able to see their faces, but all of these albums are actually long shots/very long shots, showing the artists' whole body. I think this is done to emphasise their legs: close ups are always of the face so cut them out, but in these covers their legs are really important and help to sell the girlier sexier aspects of the artists. In fact the wardrobe in all the covers help to highlight the artists' legs, with either short dresses, skirts or hold ups.
And here are a few album covers from more mainstream pop albums. Although Gilrs Aloud, The Saturdays and The Pussycat Dolls aren't exactly the genre or look we are specifically going for, this can help us in our research too as these are all girlband debut albums. All of them are similar in the fact that they are all long shots too, similar to the album covers mentioned above. The wardrobe for these also help to unite the band and convey a connection between the girls: either by wearing matching outfits such as with Girls Aloud, or wearing similar outfits with different colours such as with The Saturdays, not only showing a unity, but also individual identities.
So when taking our photos for our albums, we can take a few things from this research: we can take very long shots showing our whole bodies emphasising our legs to go with the genre conventions, or do the complete opposite to break conventions and go for close ups on our face to show our artist indentity.
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