Analysing CD covers

Name of the band. Show the audience who they are looking at.

Name of the album. This is usually a song from the album. The font is very minimalistic, but suits the genre well.

People are first attracted to this album as they want to know more about it, why is it in a street? Taking over a shop? This is what the audience will first see when they look at it on the shelf, so this needs to be appealing to the audience and contain the genre.

The main genre of this band is indie pop. This means that they need to address this and produce a suitable album cover to represent the genre.

I think this picture is good as it looks indie. The indie genre usually dress in vintage clothes that they find as bargains or in charity shops, this shop front looks like a vintage shop and they are dressed in the clothes that suit the genre.

The artwork on this album is a photograph. This seems to show a street that looks normal and everyday. The artists may want to show this in their album, that they are no superstars and that they are just normal people, the sort of people you would find just walking down the street.

Front CoverI think people will buy

this album because the cover attracts the type of people that fit into the genre if ‘indie pop’.

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Back Cover The main conventions of the back of a CD cover include: track names, amount of tracks on the CD, running order of tracks, image, colour and production details.

The spine has the name of the album and the artist’s name, this is practical for when the album is on the shelf for the customers to buy.

This main imagine compliments the front image as it is taken from the same building, so there is a running theme through the front and back of the album. The graphic layout of this design works with the genre of being simple but original. The window could also represent that the band ‘look for the bigger picture’ and looks at all aspects of life.

The production details are always in small print at the bottom of the album because they are not so important to the fans and they don’t directly read these when they are looking at the album.

The font style is the same as the front font as they have kept them the same and this is the running theme.

The colours on the album are very minimalistic which compliments the band and runs into the genre and theme. Pale blues and photographs are used to seem like the band are ‘real’ and ‘everyday’.

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Magazine Article The name of the band

and the album is in bold and the same font as to what is on the album cover, this is keeping to the theme and the genre.

They include examples of released songs that will be on the album which attracts the audience because they will know what they want to listen to and would have listened to it before.

The magazine article has included the picture of the band which is showing the audience and the people reading the magazine who it is that they will be buying.

They have used a sentence to promote the album and band. They have used one from NME which is a well known music company. This will attract people because the band have been approved by NME.

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