Audience feedback from my digipak rough cut

I showed the class my original idea for my album cover, this was still the image I have used on my final cover but just a less heavily edited version; everyone agreed that the image was successful as it looked professional, however a lot of people said it didn't represent the house music genre as much as it could as the image was quite dark, was said it looked as if it could be used for an indie artists. I wasn’t pleased with the comment and knew I had create a strong identity for my artist and the genre he sits within, I knew I had to use a more distorted effect with more edited features such as brighter colours or pixelating the photo in order to achieve this. Below are some of the comments made about my rough cut, both positive ones and negative ones:

Positive comments

• The shadow created behind the artist looks very effective 
• The photograph looks well presented and professional
• The colours used on the shadow works well with the background
• The location where the photo was taken works well with the genre 
• The contrast between the white t-shirt and the dark wall looks really effective

Negative comments

• The image looks to dark to fit into the house music genre
• The picture looks a bit too plain 
• It looks as if it needs more editing done to it 

I will keep elements of the picture the same in relation to the positive comments so I don't take these factors away from it, and will try to rectify the negative comments by furthering my editing skills and brightening up the image. Gathering feedback from my peers was extremely useful as it let me know what I did well as well as the aspects that didn't work as effectively as they could of.