Album Covers (Conventions)

Record Album covers are a way for artists or bands to sale their product also to sale themselves to the audience in society. album covers serve the purpose of advertising the musical contents on the LP, through the use of graphic design, photography,or illustration.They are all done in many different ways to catch to audiences eyes, and for each artist or and to have something unique about them that they can get noticed for. For example Blur use interesting photography for their album cover. A mix of light colours has been used and the graphic detail left simple. The image is inspired by the artist Andy Warhol and his famous paintings done in this technique. The animation gives the band an artistic style to them.

Has i mentioned before a use of text can also be used to create album covers. The Mystery Jets done this by using bright colours to display their band name. It make their CD stand out and because the text is also very large and the album name is very small. I would like my album cover to be similar to this only the use of text I'm not so sure about the image just yet, but since its not Mystery Jets first album their face doesn't need to be on the front to connect with the audience, and since were releasing our bands first album their identity is important to show the audience so they know who is in the band and what they look like.

This album caught my eye becuase i like the use of the graphic technique. The double image of the artist is different and you dont see it very often. It makes it very clear who the arist is and what they look like. The look is still very basic because the cover isnt over crowded and it uses just a plain background, which i want to use for my cover plain and simple but still very powerfull at the same time.