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Preliminary: Album cover

Our preliminary task was to create a one minute music video, and an album cover to go with. So here we have the album cover, album covers can be used to help promote a specific song, in this case 'Ugly Heart' and the band itself. As we are a girl band we went with the typical look for this category. Whilst researching into album covers many girl bands portray themselves in a similar way on their album cover, as having an image of them all promotes them and denotes to the audience the type of music they are producing within the album, which is an extremely useful promotional technique. 

In terms of the back of the album cover we have made this simplistic yet eye-catching, it denotes the look we definitely wanted to achieve of bright colors representing positive vibes which girl bands create.

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