The document discusses considerations for designing a CD cover, including layout conventions, genre of music, font design, use of stars/icons, and mock-up ideas. It provides examples from album covers of Jessie J, Cher Lloyd, and The Black Eyed Peas. For their own cover, they took inspiration from Jessie J and The Black Eyed Peas by using an edited close-up image of their character in black and white to represent their electro pop genre.

1. Analysis of
CD covers

2. CD Cover Conventions
When creating our album cover it was
important to consider the generic layout
conventions of a CD cover. We used these
examples as guides to create our own...
Jessie J Cher Lloyd The Black Eyed Peas

3. Genre
Different aspects to take into account were
things such as the genre of music and the
character we used in our video. We looked for
inspiration from artists such as Jessie J, Cher
Lloyd and The Black Eyed Peas, because they
all have a similar genre of music which is ‘pop
music’. The album covers we took inspiration
from are eye-catching and edgy.

4. Font Design- Font is important on the front
cover of the album as it must
link with the genre of music
The font used for Jessie J’s album cover is
effective as it represents her as a female
artist. She is known for her soul voice
and mix of contemporary R&B with pop
music which is well portrayed through
the sofisicated font.
Again Cher Lloyd uses a girly font to
represent her femininity. However the
single title is presented in a bold
statement font which makes it eye-
catching and gives it some edge.
The black eyed peas use of font
indicates a much more electro feel to
their genre of music. Hence the
lightning bolt effect under the name
of the artist.

5. Star and Icons
Jessie J uses a close up image of
her face on the front cover
of her album for easy
recognition to the audience.
Cher Lloyd uses a long shot image of
herself for the front cover of her album to
represent her image through her clothes
which portray the genre of music she
produces.
The Black Eyed Peas use an edited image
of a face close up. The editing of this
image is effective because it represents
the techno influence in their music genre.

6. Mock up idea for our CD cover
We took inspiration from Jessie J’s front cover by using an image of our
character to create familiarity and then we used the same idea as The Black
Eyed Peas front cover and edited our image into a black and white contrast
effect to give off the electro pop influence in genre.

7. How we created our album
front cover
We took a photo of our character on the
green screen so that we could edit it
onto a black background
We Used...
•An image of one side of her face, to present familiarity.
•A mid shot image so the character was positioned with
hand out with light painting in her hand.
• Photoshop to edit the image into black and white
contrast effect.
• Light painting heart shape, to give the electro pop feel.
• A sophisticated bold font to represent the character
and her genre of music.
• The album name ‘catching all the lights’ to link in with
the light painting effect