Recreate a Famous Album Cover

Album covers have long been a favorite pastime of mine. As a child I loved looking through my parent actual vinyl albums, seeing the cover art and reading the back. In my teens it was all about the CD cover, and reading the insert. I love when I see the art from an old favorite album. I want you to choose a favorite famous album cover (one that we will recognize) and recreate it at home. We should be able to tell that it was a recreation, and add the text back in to make it look more like an actual album. 

Assignment:

Choose a favorite famous album cover (at least one that we would recognize) and recreate it at home. You can have a little fun with this assignment by modernizing it, or try to stay closer to the original roots of the album design. Choose something interesting, not a solid color album or anything like that. You will create one single album cover, take a photo of the recreation and add the original text of the cover back on to make it look like the original. You will pass them in side-by-side like you see above.

Steps:

• Research different famous album covers, when you find a few you like think about how you are going to recreate the image on the front. 
• Create a strong recreated image like the album and edit it to look like the original. Pay attention to lighting and framing and objects—it doesn't have to be perfect but we should be able to see where the inspiration came from.
• When you are finished, submit on google classroom. 

Resources: Album Recreation Pinterest Board