My Final Album Covers and Audience Feedback

After showing a group of my target audience my album covers, I asked them each to write down a few good points and a few bad points on each one.

The majority of the good feedback was in regards to the way I added a white tint to the pictures behind the text, to make the text more visible, and they also enjoyed the happy, playful facial expressions. However, some of my target audience thought that the choice of colours were quite boring, which would be a poor reflection of the vibrant youthfulness of the band members.

A lot of my target audience liked how the text was centralised, and they liked my choice of song titles as they believed that it went well with the album title. Some of my target market commented on how they appreciated the way that the actor's tops matched, as it gave a sense of unity and matched with the colour scheme. Others, did not like how the exact same pictures were used for the front cover and the back cover. Some of my target market also criticised the legal information at the bottom, saying as a spelling mistake, and that some of the writing over one of the actor's hair was hard to read.

The majority of my target audience were fond of my use of the quote, and especially enjoyed the handwriting-style font I used. Some of them commented on how they liked how I continued with the colour scheme, and also how the colour scheme matched the actors. A few mentioned that I had made a punctuation error: 'theres' should have been written as 'there's'. A couple of them also criticized my use of longer, smaller 'photo-strips', saying there were too many photos.

In my feedback for my second inside album cover, a large number of my target audience expressed their appreciation of how the colour scheme, font and background all match well with the rest of the album, and some mentioned how they liked how the capitalized font made the text stand out. Despite this, some others said that they did not like the capitalized font as it made it look like the words were being shouted, and it made the writing look too squashed.

Most of my target audience gave positive feedback for my album cover's spine, and said it looked realistic. They complimented the simplicity and my use of the company logos and barcode number. However some criticized the colours used, saying it was too dull, and that it wouldn't stand out on a shelf.