For my first task, I am going to create the album cover for a band. To do this, I need to look at the codes and conventions of music album covers to allow me to know the conventions that I need to follow.
This album cover by Bon Jovi shows the artist name at the top of the cover, being fairly predominant. The title of the album is also shown, below the artist name. On this album cover, the title tries to join in with the background within the cover, therefore being more subtle than the artist name. The background on the album cover is quite plain and not that exciting, yet with the album title merging into the background, this makes the cover more interesting.
As now I have researched one album cover, I need to look at some more covers to see if the codes and conventions are the same.
This is the album cover for The Beatles's Abby Road. This album cover doesn't follow the conventions which I saw in my previous research. On this front cover, the title of the album and the name of the band aren't shown, with only the background image being shown. Although the image does show the members of the band, which is different to the previous CD cover I researched.
I have now researched two CD covers which are different to each other, showing me the wide range of codes and conventions there are for CD covers. Therefore I shall continue to research into similar media texts to find the typical codes and conventions.
The next album front cover that I shall look at is Devil's Gun's album Raising the Beast. The album cover does contain both the artists name and the album title.
The fourth album cover I shall look at is from a multiple CD album from Michael Jackson, History.
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