Album Covers

For our auxiliary tasks we are doing digi packs. I have decided to look at a typical album cover for the Hip Hop/R'n'B/Dance genre, in hope to get a good idea of how to design our album cover. I have decided to look at a Basshunter album cover for Dance, N Dubz Album cover for Hip Hop and Rihanna album cover for R'n'b.

Basshunter

Looking at this album it appears to have a green screen effect of a tempo effect background we get a CGI of yellow lines surrounding the artist. We get a direct address of the artist and he is in the centre of the album. we get a theme of Yellow gold/ brown and white. The Writing is block and distinctive, this could be good to use as it would be noticeable on shelves and be noticed by our target age group.

N Dubz

We get a richer colour album cover with this, as we are getting Black, gold and purple. We can see that the background is green screened in and we can see the bands symbol 'N Dubz' graffiti writing. We get the same direct address from the artists. This design could be used for our album cover as the colours are inviting and powerfully rich.


Rihanna 

With this R'n'B cover we see a strong red colour from her hair and lips which makes her stand out. The basic layout is of just her face, however we do not get anything else. Rihanna's eyes are shut in this picture so we do not get a direct address, however we see the typical 'beautiful' woman on the album cover. We see ever aspect of her and feel closer to her. However this couldn't be used as an idea for our artist as we want to be able to show that he is important in the video, even though this shows she is we don't get the same attitude showing look.

Brief On Album Covers
Each Cover had the artist on the front in a direct address we get colours which stand out from the rest and we can see that they are the important people from the CD. Whether from a simple being present to the close up of the artist and only them. We could use the Basshunter and N Dubz style, however the Rihanna Album cover is more for artists that are already well known in music business and have a steady fan base, rather then a new artist on the market.