Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Analyisng an album cover

Typical features of an album cover
- Main image of solo artist or band
- Colour scheme (can be black and white or in colour)
- Signature font/typeface
- Logo/visual motif
- Links to the artist websites
-Track listing
- Institutions
- Date of release
- Bar code
- Front, back and spine

How would you catergorise the covers?
- Genre
- Gender
-Era
- Number of the album (debut, 1st, 2nd, 3rd)
- Target audience
- Link to style; photography, artwork, animation
- special editions
- career
-mainstream or alternative/niche

What are the different functions of an album cover?
-Creates identity; makes the band/artist and music distinctive
- Helps sell the artist/songs on the album/their music
-Captures audience and pursuades them to buy the album
- Visual representations
- Has to sell the genre
- Promotes the producer/record label

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