Today, in order to choose a definite album cover for my digipak, I decided to seek the opinion of members of our genre's target audience to determine which cover was best. I asked three of my friends - Amber, Karolina and Siobhan - that are fans of the indie music genre which album cover they deemed their favourite. I was surprised to find that each had the same answer:
All of them picked the second album cover - 'SYMMETRICAL' as their favourite, with Karolina saying it looked "majestic" and Amber saying that it was the one that she would "expect most to be an album cover" as it followed conventions such as aesthetic, camera angling and colour. As a result, this will be the album cover that I will be editing and eventually using for my digipak.
However, the name "SYMMETRICAL" will be changed in my update of the cover. I originally chose this name as it was in-keeping with usual names found in the indie genre and was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek joke, as the picture itself is near-symmetrical but not quite. However, I have become disillusioned and unimpressed with this name over the past few days as it is very easy, from an audience point-of-view, to not understand the title. As a result, I have decided to choose another name that I will reveal in my next blog post.
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