The album cover of The Weeknd's Trilogy uses a simple black and white design with a small central image of the artist. There are three diamonds on the bottom representing the three CDs included. The image shows The Weeknd looking timidly away while a woman has her arms around him, concentrating on their interaction. The lighting is very dark to set the tone of the moody music genre. The text is bold for the artist name and italic but bold for the album title. The cover inspires linking an interaction between a singer and female on the cover to represent a narrative in the music.

1. The Weeknd – Trilogy
Album Case Study
By Natasha

2. Use of Images
▪ The album cover has a simple layout where there is a small image in the
middle of the cover with a white border around it while the rest of the
album remains black. This is simple yet effective as there is not too much
going on on the cover so it’s easy on the eyes.
▪ There are 3 diamonds on the bottom of the album and this is to represent
the 3 separate CDs that come inside.
▪ The image is a medium shot with a straight on angle which is enough to
show The Weeknd’s emotion.
▪ The Weeknd’s body language is quite timid. He is looking away which
suggest that he is not confident and looks almost guilty. The female has
her arms around him and most of her face is cut off which is done to
concentrate on the interaction between him and the female. Her arms
are crossed over which suggests that she is also a bit shy. This kind of
body language is used because it links in with many songs in his album.

3. Lighting and Text
▪ The lighting is very dark because the majority of the album is black. I think
this is used to set the tone of the music/genre. The image used on the
album is dim and a little blurred. The woman behind him is slightly out of
focus and his face is in focus which is used to highlight his emotion. Its all
quite blended well together and also in black and white.
▪ The text used is bold lettering for the artists name and italics but bold for
the album name. I like the italics or something similar to fancy lettering
for the name: Professional as I think it fits the name because its simple
and overall looks good.

4. Linking it to our CD Digipack
▪ The use of the interaction between The Weeknd and female on the front of
the cover can link to our music video as there is some link between the
narrative story female and the actual singer. This inspires us to use a
similar interaction between the two. The unconfident vibe we get from
the cover can be applied to the emotions of the female on our album
cover.
▪ The album shows us that to fit in with The Weeknd’s style we should make
our cover simple but still fitting in with the theme and style we used in our
music video. For example we used a lot of the bad TV effect in our video so
we could try to incorporate that into it.
▪ Like Trilogy we can use the lighting to indicate the mood of the music video.
Trilogy uses dim lighting and a lot of ours uses shadows so we could add
that in. We can also represent the female’s past and present story using
lighting like we did in our video. For example, dimmer and shadowed
lighting to represent her past as a stripper and lighter, bright lighting to
show her success as a model.