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- 2. The typography usedfor the title of the album “My Everything” is written in a very feminine and delicate font. The way the text is written also links into the emotion of the text itself. The title of the album gives fans the idea that the content will be about “everything” that’s important to the artist, which stereotypically links to the way females talk about their feelings. The female artist is captured on the front cover wearing a minimal amount of clothing, including very short shorts. The text goes through the artist’s midriff, drawing the audience’s attention to her torso and below. ‘My Everything’ was released on August 22nd 2014, following her previous album’s success (Yours Truly), which features famous artists such as: Big Sean, Nathan Sykes and Mac Miller. My Everything has sold around 700,000 copies in the US alone. The background of this album colour is almost black. The darkness of the background highlights the main focus- the artist in the middle. The black and white colour scheme of this album cover gives it a very sophisticated and classy look. The camera angle used to capture the main image makes it easier for the audience to view the artist’s feminine pose. So the audience are able to identify this album as quite girly. In this particular album cover, females are represented as very girly and that they care about their appearance. The artist is pictured wearing high heels and a matching set of shorts and a bralet.
- 3. This album wasreleased by Miley Cyrus to re-establish her music career on the 4th of October 2013. The album ‘Bangerz’ features artists such as: French Montana, Future and Nelly. The album sold 270,000 in the first week of its release and also allowed Miley Cyrus to receive a Grammy nomination for best pop vocal album. The artist’s name is written quite boldly and spaced out across the top and bottom of the album cover, which allows the audience to clearly identify who she is. The colour of this text is appropriate to the rest of the colour scheme, red and blue are vibrant and fun colours. The title of the album is ‘Bangerz’, which implies that all of the songs on it are upbeat, good vibe songs. The typography of the title is very creative, it styled and edited as a wall light and stands out on the cover. The background has a gradient colour of peachy orange and purple, it also include images of trees. This background is quite colourful, but dark enough to still make the artist the main focus. I think that the background is unique and not as simple as others, which reflects the artist well. The image of the artist looks as if it’s been cut out and stuck onto the album, which gives it more depth and makes it look more 3D. The fact that the artist is wearing red lipstick makes the emotion on her face stand out more. Her facial expression is quite fierce, which could link to some of the songs on the album. Miley is posed in a position that looks as if she’s confident with herself. Her fierce facial expression which is staring directly to the camera makes her look like a strong woman. In addition to this, her outfit also makes her appear like a strong female artist. This represents females positively because it shows that they’re not timid, girly girls like they’re stereotyped to be.
- 4. Tattoos is JasonDerulo’s third studio album, released on 20th September 2013. Jason Derulo wanted this album to be different to his other albums and for the growth in his writing to show. This album features famous artists such as: 2 Chainz and Jordin Sparks. The artist’s name is written in quite a rustic style, but still bold. The white on yellow background makes his name a prominent feature on the album cover and will enable people to notice it straight away. The colour of the font also compliments the white highlights in the background extremely well and makes the text and background come together successfully. The background is a mix of darker and lighter tones of yellow as well as white highlights around the artist’s face. The vibrancy of the background makes the album cover as a whole stand out a lot and become extremely recognisable. The yellow of the background also compliments the yellow in the graphics on the artist’s neck. This hairstyle is often associated with stereotypical African-American males, so this image adheres to that stereotype. The tattoos on the artist’s neck directly link to the theme of the album’s title and even has ‘tattoos’ included within the tattoos. The camera angle used to capture the image of the artist is effective for this album cover because it reveals the tattoos on his neck and patterned hair style. It’s important that the tattooed side of his neck is on show because it includes the title of the album.
- 5. Artpop is thethird studio album by Lady Gaga, released on November 6th 2013. Artpop includes the famous single ‘Applause’ and features vocals from artists such as: R Kelly, T.I and Twista. The typography for the title of the album and the artist’s name is extremely bold in regards to the font itself and the colour of the font. The artist’s name is bright pink, which is very effective in regards to standing out from the background. The colour of the title is white, which looks bold against the blue object that it’s in front of. Considering this is Lady Gaga’s third studio album and the fact she’s frequently in the media because of her unique style means that most people know who she is. This means that her name doesn’t need to look particularly clear for the audience to know who’s album it is if it’s accompanied by an image of her. The background for this album appears to be a collage of historical images, broken up. There’s no clear colour scheme for this album, but this can be forgiven because the title is ‘Artpop’ so it can be seen as abstract and creative. Lady Gaga is styled to look like a statue, which links to the historical background. Her facial expression and body language is very stiff and emotion-less to capture this role. Lady Gaga has been made to look doll-like and out of proportion, like a work of art. This ties in with the title of the album ‘Artpop’ because it’s supporting the art theme. The album name is pop art in reverse, so everything has been made to look distorted and very colourful.
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- 7. This is aposter advertising Kasabian’s album ‘Empire’. The main theme of the poster is power. The single image in the middle of the poster is made to look dated and features a man of power carrying a woman. This image links in extremely well with the name of the album because it could be inferred that this man featured in the image runs an empire. Additional images on the poster are the logos that represent King of Clubs from a pack of playing cards. This links with the theme of power as well as the main image and the name of the band. When the main image is accompanied by the King of Clubs symbol, it makes the word empire seem so much more important, and makes the man in the main image look like he’s a king. The Ks on the King of Clubs symbol could also link with the name of the band, whose name begins with a K- this makes the poster look memorable. The name of the band is placed in front of the main image in a font that’s a bit more modern but not too modern that it distracts from the theme. The slightly yellow outline of the font ties in well with the background of the image and makes the text look less bold and more a part of the image. The font used for the album release date is placed at the bottom of the poster so that it doesn’t distract from the theme or the main image. The font of this information is designed to link with the theme because it’s not too bold and it’s quite simple.
- 8. The poster topromote Ben Howard’s album ‘Every Kingdom’ features an image that covers the whole background, which is effective for catching the audience’s attention. The image is of someone diving into the sea, so the background is various shades of blue. This is effective because it gives the poster texture and allows it to look calming. Ben Howard belongs to a genre that creates soft and calm music, which the background of this poster perfectly demonstrates. The sea that the person is diving into is still and empty-looking, which could demonstrate them getting away from their chaotic life. The main image could also represent the person diving into another “kingdom”, to make reference to the album name. The typography is extremely simple and compliments the background well. The artist’s name is written in bold white and larger than the other text so that it stands out and the audience is aware of who the album is by. Also included on the poster is the name of the album and the release date. This information is also written in white to keep it simple, but they’ve not been made bold because they’re not as important as the artist’s name. The release date has been made the smallest of all the text because it’s the least significant piece of information on the poster, they have to ensure the audience know who the album is by and what it’s called because notifying them about the release date.
- 9. This is anadvertisement for Green Day’s album ‘21st Century Breakdown’. The background image features a man and woman kissing against a brick wall at night time. Both of these people are wearing black with black hair and this supports the genre of music that Green Day produce. Green day as a band dress very gothic-like and dark, so the two people in this image represent the band and their style. The brick wall behind the two people add colour to the advertisement and also highlight the two people in the image. The typography used in this advertisement links with the genre of music that Green Day belongs to. The font used to design the name of the band is edgy and made to look like it’s been graffti-ed onto the brick wall and the other text on the poster are bold and look very abstract . Included on this poster is information about the release date of the album as well as the band’s name and album name. An effective way that the poster has grabbed the audience’s attention is by the text at the top that says ‘the wait is finally over…’, which will give them a sigh of relief and make them more eager to purchase the album.
- 10. This poster isdesigned to advertise the Killer’s new album. Within this poster they’ve included the name of the band, the title of the album, what the poster is advertising and what popular single is featured in the album. It’s effective to mention a popular single that will be included in the album because if someone has grown to love that song when they’ve heard it on the radio, they may purchase the album so that they can listen to that song as much as they want as well as getting familiar with more of their songs. The background of this album features an image that’s designed to look like mosaic and a peaceful sunset over a mountain. The colour of the sunset is created using different shades of purple which is quite unique and gives the poster a bright and attractive background. The colours used to make the desert-like mountains below the sunset are created using shades of orange and brown which compliment the purple shades nicely to make this poster look extremely well put together and appealing. The background of this poster is very appropriate to get the attention of the Killer’s target audience, which is mainly adults. Adults will appreciate the artistic flare of the background and will understand that this album will appeal to them more than teenagers.