secet 7 - initial ideas

I've decided to take on secret 7 as one of my individual practise briefs. The challenge is to take one of the well known songs given and make an album cover for it without mentioning the song name or singer. The winning covers will be displayed and sold in an exhibition, the buyers won't know the song choice until they have bought the cover, and all the money goes to charity. So it is an exciting brief to be involved in. But to make it a substantial brief for the project I will have to create an outcome for several of the songs, do several designs for the same song or develop the imagery for a song into further products. 

So far I have chosen:

The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

Underworld - Born Slippy

Diana Ross and the Supremes - Reflections

Some initial ideas I've had on the songs

Rolling Stones

When listening to it I felt it could have been set in a desert, as if there is a long car journey down some outstretched road.

But also maybe a dream like environment - maybe with multicoloured mountains which aren't quite right. 

The rolling stones are known for having taken lots of drugs throughout their career, so it could possibly have some psychedelic element. 

I could try and literally represent the song title - maybe depicting dead flowers, possibly in plectrums to relate to the important guitar element in the band. 

Underworld

This song is mainly famous from being in soundtrack for the film 'Trainspotting', which is about a group of people's experiences with taking heroin. So again the cover could maybe relate to that aspect in some way with 'trippy' psychedelic imagery. I am quite drawn to using the trainspotting colours for the cover as they are very bold, rather intrusive colours which the song kind of feels like.

The song feels like it is set somewhere quite urban so I wanted to include city imagery but also make it quite abstract, with elements slightly out of proportion- I like the idea of using the imagery of street lamps and have them towering above maybe or a heavily repeated pattern using them. 

The Supremes

The Supremes have a very distinctive look which I really like - with the three ladies with big hair. I like the idea of taking their silhouettes, maybe having them in a mo-town bar with quite dim colours. Or possibly just taking the shape of their hair to illustrate. Or maybe using some loose watercolour and limited colour palette to depict the inside of a bar with a vague outline of the figures