Album cover research and analysis.

For the ancillary task I will be researching and analysing a variety of different album covers. Doing this will help me come to a decision on how I am going to present my album cover for my digipak.

1. I really like this album cover as the positioning of the musician (Rhianna) is very flexible and sleek, I also like how they’ve used the shadowing of her body to create some form of silhouette. I also like how the text is very basic but it works very effectively and its gives a very casual approach. The thing Katherine and I liked about this album cover is that the positioning of the

model resembles the stripes of a tiger, which is relevant to Fire Drive Tiger theme.

2. The main thing I like most about this album cover is the simple black background with the lighting on the artists (Adele) face. I like how the clear font and the lighting gives the album cover a slight mature feel to it, also from looking at the artist in the picture you can see that she is slightly upset and that gives you the impression that her music might be slow and

slightly sad. I like how the album cover represents the artist’s music.

3. Again this album cover caught both Katherine and I eyes as the colours are bright and eye catching. We also like how the album cover has been cut into 4 different sectors; we’re going to use this in our ancillary tasks in the future. We also like how the four people have been characterised which adds a sense of mystery to the album cover.

4. This is another album cover that caught my eye as the colours are very warm; this would work well with the ancillary task as the warm fiery colours match the tigers personality as being fiery and angry. The only thing I don’t like about this album cover is that I don’t like the font that has been used as I see it

being slightly child like. But apart from that I really like the artwork that has been used as it looks very similar to graffiti, I also like how the colours contrast against the background.

5. When I first looked at this album cover I instantly looked at the headwear she is wearing. But after a while I properly looked at the album cover and you begin to notice the writing that is going up her arm, which looks like a tattoo, the background which looks like a rough painted canvas. I love how the whole album cover is in grey scale which adds emotion to the album

cover.

6. With this album cover the main thing that caught my eye is the bright red front saying “riot” which contrasts against the whole album cover, as the rest of the album cover is black and white. I also like how

the group have all been positioned looking into the camera, and in a slight height order. Katherine and I are aiming to have something like this for our album cover for our ancillary tasks.