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Our Final Album Cover

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Album Cover Analysis

1) conventions
- background image, often a person/face
-name of band/artist
-name of album
-capital letters
-use of colour
-photos
-plain background

2) categorising
- faces + people vs other
-abstract/cartoon vs photos
-black background vs other

3) Purpose
-advertising the artist and their music
- to sell the CD
-to give some (visual) identity/image to the band
-to hint at the type of music in the album
-to distinguish the different albums/music from the same artist

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