research on existing CD covers

One CD cover i decided to analyse to help me get some ideas into creating my own digi-pack was an album cover by chipmunk. Chipmunk is an up and coming UK hip-hop artist who is now signed to Sony. On the front of the cover their is a close-up image of chipmunk looking at the camera. This is effective as it will be the first thing the audience see and it catches the audience attention, it also helps promotes the artist image. An black background is used with lighting effects which have been photoshoped on to the front cover. The cover is simplistic yet still effective with big bold black and white typography of the artist name.

Another album cover i looked at was Eminem. A long shpt-picture of the artist is used on the front cover, however you cannot see he;s face. This is because Eminem is already an well known established artist, and can still attract the audience as they will be familiar with he's music and will still be likely to purchase this product. Their is a picture of him on a stage this corresponds with he;s album name as it called 'curtains'. I think the creativity of the design of this was effective. A parental advisory sign is put on to let the audience know that their are some explicit words within hes lyrics and it may not be suitable to all ages. I think it would be a good idea to place the sign on my artist album cover as some of he;s lyrics may be seemed as offensive and controversial. However i think it is important i use a close-up image of my artist on the front cover as he is not well known yet and it helps market and promotes our artist image and music.

 

The last album cover i looked at was by an artist called Chris brown i like the typography used on the front as it is in graffiti writing and it fits in with the whole generic idea that graffiti is associated with hip-hop. It creates inter-textual links that allows the audience to guess which type of genre he;s music is. Again their is a long shot photo of the album looking away, Chris brown is also well known and the audience will still be able to identify who he is, without having to have a close-up image of him. I like the use of colours used on this CD cover the colours blue,white and black are used, these colour are bright and reflect well of each other which attracts the audience attention as well as marketing the artist and he's music.