CD Cover - Draft 1

This is the first draft of the album cover. The background appears wooden representing the desk that the female protagonist sits at, as well as the desk used for most of the animation, allowing it to connect to the music video and to make it more interesting for the target audience to have an insight of the process of the animation.

In the centre of the cover is the mask used in the music video. Although this mask is only seen in the start and end of the video (during the live action sections), it has a lot of symbolism and is the main prop for the whole video. The mask shows the fear and insecurity the female protagonist feels at the start of the song. This insecurity is one many young female and males have due to the media and society's high expectations of what people should look and act like. As a result, the protagonist has hidden her identity away in fear that she does not belong. This makes her feel ugly both on the inside and the outside. The white represents her pure innocents and how naive she is with the lack of knowledge that she is loved just the way she is.

The handmade characters in the animation surround the mask symbolizing the journey of self-discovery that the protagonist has in the animated world, where the male protagonist shows his affections towards her. This is shown as these two characters appear from behind the mask, revealing the emotions from within.

Some of the supporting cast surround the mask, not only to acknowledge them, but to identity the fact that the female protagonist is surrounded by loved ones and is never alone.

The pencil is another reference to the fact that the music video is mainly made using hand drawn characters. The pencil appear to draw a lone on the background, leading to the singer's (John Legend's) name, to show his importance to the album itself. The font is white like the mask, to stand out from, the background and represent importance and the natural message the lyrics and video provide to the target audience. The font has a bold, black out line to match the theme of drawings, making the text appear to have been drawn too.