FINAL ALBUM COVER

 The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever

I recreated an album cover for the Kpop group BTS and their third album in the 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life' series called 'Young Forever'. I actually had created 3 album covers, with a full pink butterfly cover for part one and a full blue butterfly cover for the second part. I decided to have half of the pink and half of the blue butterflies to create the third part, creating a new butterfly with with familiar parts. This symbolises how this third album connects with the previous two albums, as it has some reedited songs from part one (‘I need you’ and ‘Love is not over’) and part two (‘Butterfly’ and ‘House of Cards’) which help in creating this third album. It also symbolises how there are new songs (represented by the new mixed butterfly) but the sound is still familiar (BTS style from previous albums) as well as the concept of the beauty of youth, love and life in general, which is still present in the songs.

I used a butterfly as the main image as it is a representation of beauty, freedom, and a spirit of being carefree, flying through life. The butterfly and the concept behind it helps to visualise ‘the most beautiful moment in life’.

The original cover for the first album is pale pink and the original cover for the second album is pale blue, therefore i stuck with this pink and blue for my album cover. I wanted the colours to pop more so i used brighter shades of pink and blue. I also made the background black in order to make the colours stand out more. Using a black background also gave a clean look. I wanted to have the butterfly look like it is being preserved, hence the white square border creating a frame. The preserved butterfly symbolises how you want to save and treasure memorable moments in life that make living beautiful. Capturing a butterfly and preserving it prevents rotting and aging and so you could say that the beauty of the butterfly will last forever. Referring back to the title of the album, the butterfly will be ‘young forever’. The songs can also be timeless, and can act as a beautiful moment in time.

I created the butterfly in Photoshop, using a low poly effect to give it a pixelated look. I wanted to have the butterfly made from a lot of segments to symbolise that life has more than one beautiful moment, or that more than one thing can contribute in making a beautiful moment in life. I google searched and selected the butterflies i wanted to use and opened them up in Photoshop. I then drew a variety of sizes of triangles with the polygonal lasso tool on top of the butterfly image. After creating each triangle, i added a blur-average filter which filled the triangle with the average solid colour. There are little cracks and imperfections in between these triangles that i wanted to keep to show that sometimes it’s the failures, sorrows and pains that we go through that help in creating beautiful moments in life. In this album there are songs about lost love and fear of the unknown which link to this concept.

I also added a 3 outside the ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ logo (the square with Korean writing) and wrote with the text box under it ‘Young Forever’. I added the BTS logo and made sure both the title, butterfly and BTS logo were all centred. This composition looks well balanced and adds to creating the ‘clean’ look.

Experimentation: Low Poly on Photoshop

experimenting with faces, this is Suga from the group BTS

first experiment with a pink butterfly

2nd experiment with a blue butterfly

with this 3rd experiment i thought to have half of part 1 and part 2 to make part 3 with is this mix of the two. 

experimenting with where to put the title of the album

I like the look and composition of the Title of Album, the butterfly and the BTS logo all centred. 

extra experiment i did for Jackie. I like the green and i think if you were to try this effect with any bright colour it would turn out nice. 

Paramore: "Riot" Album Cover

The word riot either means a violent disturbance of peace by a crowd or an impressively varied or large display of something. I think the latter applies with Paramore’s Riot album cover. This album cover really does capture the title of the album, with a riot or chaotic spray of the word 'riot' as a background and the members of Paramore amongst it all. Despite the cover only having three colours, white black and red, the whole of the cover is fully covered with few places of negative space. The cover has been filled in a way that creates a riotous and busy look. Not only is the cover art of a riotous nature, it connects to the rock music produced by Paramore which is a riot of emotions being verbally expressed in the lyrics of the songs and in instruments. There are songs which are loud and upbeat in tempo like ‘Misery business’ and ‘crushcrushcrush’, and also songs are more slow and ballad-like like ‘We are broken’ and ‘When it rains’ which shows the mix of tempos- connecting to the mix of sizes of the word riot that is written all over the background. Having the band members simply drawn in black and white and placing them in the centre helps your eye to focus on them without getting distracted by all the words surrounding them.

BTS: "The Most Beautiful Moment In Life. Pt 2" Album Cover

I really like the simplicity of this album cover. Having looked at quite a few of kpop album covers i came across a lot of bright bold colours and a lot of photographs of the group members, so this cover is a pleasant change. The composition of the butterfly, the petals and the writing create a well balanced and interesting image. I like how the colour palate is a pastel blue and how it creates a 'soft' feel to it, which connects with the album title 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life. Pt 2'. There is a relaxed, freedom, simple vibe to the album art, which does create a visual for not only the title of the album, but for the music produced by BTS in this album. The songs are about youth, and the beauty of it and have a more slow-jam sound. Using a butterfly could also symbolise beauty, freedom and carefree life of youth. There is also a song called Butterfly in this album which is about the fear of having love ‘fly away’ or being like a butterfly- which are beautiful but hard to hold onto and keep. Because this is part two of a 3 part album project, we see that some of the same soft tones and symbols from the part one album cover are used again, creating a series.

The Most Beautiful Moment in Life. Pt 1

Rihanna: Anti Album Cover Art

With Rihanna's most recent album called 'Anti', she worked with Israeli artist Roy Nachum who traditionally created the artwork with paint. The image is of Rihanna as a child, holding a balloon and having her eyes covered by a golden crown. There is also a poem by Chloe Mitchell written over the image with braille. Despite the image consisting of only four colours, dominantly red, the image itself and the meaning behind it makes a huge impact. Nachum stated that he wanted to make artwork that even the blind could see and appreciate, hence the braille. Rihanna’s music has the same effect, with helping people ‘see’ without literally seeing; giving everyone the opportunity to ‘see’ through music. Despite the young Rihanna having her eyes covered, the songs of the present Rihanna opens the eyes of the public to her reality and emotions, however anti those emotions might be. Red being the dominant colour in the image could symbolise themes throughout her album such as passion, blood, life, and anger. I like composition of the image being on the left side with the centre and right white, giving it a ‘rule of third’ vibe to it where your eyes are still drawn to it even though it isn’t in the centre.

Paramore: The Only Exception [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Paramore: Decode [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Research: Paramore

Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band currently consists of lead vocalistHayley Williams and guitarist Taylor York. The group released its debut album All We Know Is Falling in 2005, with the album reaching number eight on the UK Rock Chart and number thirty on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart.

The band's second album, Riot!, was released in 2007. Due to the success of the singles "Misery Business", "crushcrushcrush", and "That's What You Get", Riot! was a mainstream success and was certified Platinum in the United States. They then received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2008 Grammy Awards. Their 2009 follow-up, Brand New Eyes, is the band's second-highest charting album to date, landing at number two on the Billboard 200 with 175,000 first week sales. It produced the top-forty single "The Only Exception" and went platinum in Ireland and the UK, as well as gold in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.^[1]

Following the departure of Josh and Zac Farro in 2010, the band released their self-titled fourth album in 2013. It gave the band their first career number one on the US Billboard 200 and was also the number one album in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.^[2] It included the singles "Still Into You" and "Ain't It Fun", with the latter winning the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, making it Paramore's first Grammy win. Bassist Jeremy Davis left the band in December 2015.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramore)

(http://www.paramore.net/)

ALL WE KNOW IS FALLING

RIOT

BRAND NEW EYES

PARAMORE

GOT7 “Fly” M/V

GOT7 "If You Do(니가 하면)" M/V

Research: GOT7

Got7 (Korean: 갓세븐; romanized as Gatsebeun; stylized as GOT7) is a South Korean K-pop boy group formed by JYP Entertainment in 2014. Got7 has seven members: leader JB, Mark, Junior, Jackson, Youngjae, BamBam, and Yugyeom. They are a multinational group with members from South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand and the United States.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got7)

Research: BTS Album Art

2COOL 4SKOOL

O!RUL82?

SKOOL LOVE AFFAIR

DARK & WILD

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE. Pt 1

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE. Pt 2

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE. YOUNG FOREVER

BTS (FIRE)' MV (dance ver.)

BTS 'Save ME' MV

Research: BTS

BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys (Hangul: 방탄소년단; RR: Bangtan Sonyeondan; lit. Bulletproof Boy Scouts),^[1] is a seven-member South Korean boy group formed by Big Hit Entertainment. They debuted on June 13, 2013, with the song "No More Dream" from their first album, 2 Cool 4 Skool.

BTS has won several "New Artist of the Year" awards, including those at the 2013 MelOn Music Awards and Golden Disk Awards, and the 2014 Seoul Music Awards. A year after their debut, they received major bonsang awards for Dark & Wildand The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1. Having performed in Asia, North America, and South America, their outstanding performances won the Best World Performer award in the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards.

The group has an image ranging from a tougher, bad boy to a more youthful image. They focus mainly on the hip hop genre while appealing to youth also. MTV's Corynn Smith stated that BTS has incorporated hip hop beats and rock-inspired elements for their singles: "Danger" and "Boy in Luv (상남자)".^[41] BTS has been called the "K-pop's Social Conscience" by Jeff Benjamin from Fuse, who wrote that the group has found "a way to speak honestly about topics they deem important, even in a conservative society."^[42]

Through their many releases, BTS has tackled school bullying, the pursuit of happiness and rejecting society's ideals in their lyrics.^[42] They play an active role producing their music, and all members participate in the musical and lyrical composition of their songs.

The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever (Hangul: 화양연화 Young Forever; RR: Hwayang-yeonhwa Young Forever) is the first compilation album of South Korean boy group BTS. The special album was released on May 2, 2016, supported with three music videos.^[1][2] The album contains songs from their two extended plays in 2015, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1 and The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2, three new songs and several new remixes.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS)

http://bts.ibighit.com/index.php