Gabrielle Aplin

This is Gabrielle Aplin's first EP album cover, which is very simplistic. The black and white style creates quite a professional feel about the EP, whilst connoting that the songs may be quite dismal. The positioning of the artist clearly connotes her significance, as she's the only image on the EP. The type-writer style text on the left indexically connotes that the EP is quite personal and natural, which is further connoted through the natural looking image.

Personally, I prefer Gabrielle's second EP album cover as I think the use of colour connotes the idea of being natural, and quite a content and happy feel. The difference between both the EP's connotes a difference in the style of the songs, as well as the progression Gabrielle has made. The pink flowers iconically connote femininity, which is further connoted through the sweeping of the hair across the album cover. The positioning of the artists face on the left of the album cover causes the audience to instantly be attracted to the image, as the small text doesn't divert the audiences attention. As only half of the artists face is on the cover, it iconically suggests mystery, informing the audience that the songs may follow a less obvious theme.


I think that when creating the digipak and magazine advert instead of having an image of the artist on them, I want to try different ideas with objects that could represent the style of the song - I want to conceptualise the magazine adverts and digipak, the same way I'm using the conceptual idea of nature in the music video. However, to progress my ideas I'm going to begin drawing out a range of ideas, and possibly conduct a target audience research to find out their preferences for magazine adverts and digipaks.