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Cascada – Perfect day•Typical feminine front cover.

•Comes across cheesy pop style cover,.

•She is very false looking with the typical amazingly white teeth and bright blonde hair, very glamorous.

•The colours are more attractive to girls, as boys are not likely to look at it if it is very girly.

•It doesn’t have her name on the album which normally if it is one singers album they would have there name on however she is the only singer but she doesn’t go under her own name, she goes by her stage name.

•The writing is nothing amazing however the stage name is bigger than the title again this catches the viewers eye as it is the main bit of writing. It is also quite plain this could be an indication of feminize attributes as a masculine rap album would have bold heavy font that stuck at and more than often in black.

•This can be compared to things such as steps and S-Club as they are extremely cheesy to look at, so she has ruined the aspect of looking at her actual music genre by using a cheesy appearance.

THE ANNUALMinistry of Sound

• Bold, colourful writing.• The producers logo is placed behind the title of the CD.• Even though it is a Club/Trance/Dance genre based CD the front

colour does not show this. Although it does use bright colours for the writing which does show that it has some funkiness in it.

• It has a plain back ground which presents the writing bolder than what it would be on a brighter more lively back ground.

• I personally think it is a good design even though it is plain its attractive and funky. So you roughly know that it is not going to be a gothic genre.

• It hasn’t got a particular gender/age range like some cd covers you can usually point out what boys/girls would like, same for the age range you wouldn’t see an elderly person look at it, it would be more appealing to younger people

• By using the badge it does say that it is the ministry of sound this gives away that they are serious about music.

Hard2Beat Club Anthems• Its Bright, funky and very in your face.• It immediately catches your eye.• Spot lights are used so you can automatically see that it isn’t going to

be emo or gothic again, however in some ways it could be cheesy pop as it is very bold the only difference is that cheesy pop would usually be primary colours.

• It doesn’t focus on one person it looks at various and you can tell this by the use of ANTHEMS.

• The bold font is also another good indication as it is very eye catching and on the slant so it is no longer boring.

• This could be aimed for either male/female population, as it doesn’t use typical sex colours. E.g. Blue or Pink so its attractive and not focused on anyone.

• Also with this you cant really place a certain age group on it, however you wouldn’t really find any one in late 50’s+ listening to things like this.

• This is the stereotypical mixed dance music cover you will se it on near enough every dance cover e.g. the NOW 72 and so on.

Avril LavigneThe best damn thing

•Its not overly plain however compared to the dance ones it does seem rather bland.

•In its own way it makes a statement to its genre the way she is dressed and also some of the objects that are in the image e.g. the heart and bones normally you wont see this in any other genre other than punk/skater/ emo.

•They use her as to show the album is all hers it isn’t a mixed artists CD

•More than likely aimed at the female population as it has a lot of pink on it and fair do some men nowadays don’t mind pink but it still categorized as a feminine colour.

•The writing isn’t anything heavy it is in a simple font however her name is bolder than the album title which is clearly a statement of her work.

•Out of all the images this is the most naturalistic

•She is an original individual almost as if two fingers up at every other genre style.

Britney• Similar to Avril its is just her placed on the cover, with a

funky background colour however the only difference is that Avril has a plain back ground and this has a building of some kind placed behind her.

• The image has obviously been highly edited, in some cases this is a good idea in others not so much.

• The way she is sitting promotes that it is almost a good girl gone bad image.

• The colours aren’t majorly in your face but going back to past cd covers from her you can see how technology in editing has changed, because she is a different colour to the back ground she stand out boldly.

• Also she has a random flash of pink behind.• By the cover you can’t really tell what genre as • It might not just be for girls as it has masculine Colours to.• From first sight you may suspect it to be punk/ emo.• Its obvious its her work as she is on the front.• It isn’t overly eye catching but if anything was to catch Your eye it would be the use of colour.