The document discusses and compares the album artwork for four albums: Cher Lloyd's "Sticks and Stones", Demi Lovato's "Unbroken", Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded", and Frank Ocean's "Channel Orange". It analyzes the photography, text, use of color, and appropriateness of each album cover for the artist's genre of music. Bright colors and bold fonts are used on covers like Cher Lloyd's and Nicki Minaj's to catch attention, while Demi Lovato's uses subtle colors and Frank Ocean's uses a single dominant color. The covers generally match expectations for the pop, hip hop, R&B, and rap genres represented

1. Pre-production Planning and
Research

2. Cher Lloyd ‘Sticks and Stones’
Photography
The photography on this album cover is very unique compared to other album covers. The singer is laying on the floor
with her feet up in the air, and behind her she has colourful, bright swirls and hearts. These colourful images behind her
are what catches the audience eyes as they are very bright and bold, and grabs their attention.
Text
The text on this album cover is very bold. On the top left hand corner of the album there is cher's signature logo which
is very bold and has a very girly font, for example a love heart is used for the 'O' for 'Lloyd'. Then on the bottom left
hand corner of the album you have the name of the album in a very simple bold font.
Use of colour
A lot of colour is used in this album cover, this is
to make the album look very bright and bold to catch
the audience attention. Except from the text on the
album, all the other colours are all very bright colours,
like pinks and yellows. This use of the colour is used
because it is very eye-catching and bold.
Appropriateness for the genre of music
The album cover is appropriate for the genre of music.
Chers music is very popy/ r&b, and the album cover
shows this. The use of colour on the album cover
shows the audience the genre of music that
this album will be, also you can tell by photography
that the genre isn't rock or punk music. You can
tell that music is going to be very up-beat and
dance like by the bright and bold colours
used on the album cover.

3. Demi Lovato ‘Unbroken’
Photography
The photography on this album cover is very simple. There is just a photo of the artist in a posing position. Also the
sense of movement is shown on the cover because you can see that the artists hair is blowing in the wind.
Text
The text on the album cover is also very simple, however the text still looks bold because it is written in capital letters
and is in a bold colour which will catch the audience attention.
Use of colour
Limited colour is used on this cover. No bright colours are used,
they are all light and dark browns. Using these colours makes
the album look more sutlel and also the use of the colour
on the text makes it stand out and look bold.
Appropriateness for the genre of music
The album cover is appropriate for the genre of music.
Demi Lovato genre of music is pop, and the album
cover does show this. By the use of the sutel
colours on the album you can tell the artist
sings calm pop music, her music isn't
dance like and very up-beat.

4. Nicki Minaj Pink Friday
‘Roman Reloaded’
Photography
The photography on this album is very bright. The artist face is covered in bright coloured paint, which clashes with her
bright blonde hair, this clash makes the photography look bold and bright. Behind the singer there is many different
colours which are blurred out to make the photo of the singer stand out.
Text
The text on this album is very bright and bold. The text is in a very girl font, with the colour pink used which shows it is
very girly. The bright colours and bold fonts are very eye-catching and this is why it is used, so it catches the audience
attention.
Use of colour
A lot of different colours are used in this album cover,
to make it look very bright and bold, to catch the audience attention.
Nicki Minaj is a very girly artist, so the colour pink is used
alot on the album cover, it is seen on the artists face, behind the artist
and also on the text.
Appropriateness for the genre of music
The album cover is appropriate for the genre of music.
Nicki Minaj is a hip-hop, dance, pop and r&b artist, and the album cover
shows this. You can tell by all the colours used in the album
cover that Nicki Minaj music is very pop-like, and will include
lots of dance/raving music.

5. Frank Ocean ‘Channel Orange’
Text
The text on this album is very simple, however the white text on the orange background makes the text stand out, so
the text looks bold and bright which will catch the audience attention.
Use of colour
The main colour of the album cover is orange, this is mainly because the title of the album is called 'Channel Orange' so
the title goes within the album cover. The other colour used on this album is white, the white text stands out on the
orange background, it looks very bold and will catch the viewers attention.
Appropriateness for the genre of music
Frank Ocean is hip-hop and rap artist. Unless you already
have heard of frank ocean, when you see this album
you wouldn't really know what time of genre he is.
The use of colour on the album cover doesn't show people
what genre the artist is, so it isn't really that appropriate.
The only useful thing on the album cover is in the right
hand corner of the album it says 'Parental Advisory, explicit content'
this tells us that the album contains words that small children should not
hear, so you can tell that the genre of music isn't right for children by
looking at the album cover.
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