This cover is for the Fleetwood Mac album 'Say you will'. Fleetwood Mac are a British- American rock band which were formed in 1967 in London. The Say you will album came out in 2003 so it is one of their most recent album and the first one they did in over 30 years. The first thing that immediately stands out when you look at the album cover is 'Fleetwood Mac' as it is in red making it the most dominant aspect of the cover. This is because when the audience are looking for the album they will look for the name of the band not the name of the album, so most of the time the band name will be the aspect which is the most dominant. The colour red has been chosen to be used with black and white because it is a colour which has an immediate affect to stand out, giving the viewer enough contrast between the figure and the foreground allowing the viewer to be able to read it easily without having to squint.
The rest of the album cover is in black and white including the picture and the album title. The two people who are focused on in the picture are two of the band members. Christine McVie is the women in the image who is the main singer of the band and who the audience will most relate the band to. Just to the outside of the image you can vaguely see the other two members of the band which will help reassure the audience of all of the members of the band.
The name of the album 'Say you will' is upside down as well as the man in the picture this shows that even though the name of the band and the main singer and the right way round that the name of the song and the other artist are also just as important as it is drawing attention to them as they are not as they would be expected to be.
This cover is for Elton John - The Definitive Hits. This is an album which includes 13 number one hits.
The title of the artist (Elton John) is written in a simple font, in a simple colour and placed where most people would think of placing the most dominant aspect of the cover. This is effective because as the background is white, black is the colour which will most stand out making the contrast of the foreground stand out and become the most obvious. When making a cover for a CD of Album you need to make the artists name become the most dominant feature. As the background is just plain white it helps both the image and the writing to stand out effectively.
The picture of the album is the most effective part of the cover as he decided to make it to mark his 60th birthday, the biggest picture of Elton John is a picture of him now and then there is several other pictures representing his time as an artist from when he started through to now. This shows how successful he has been throughout the years and that he is still successful now. The smaller pictures surrounding the larger one are almost as if they are looking up to him as if he is the most dominant of them all now than he has been throughout his career, in same the way that his fans respect and look up to him. The picture is in the center of the cover also showing the dominance and all the pictures show Elton John's personality and how he has career has grown.
The colours of the image help the picture stand out from the background because most of the outfits have black in them and black is the colour which contrasts most with the white background making a lot of the image stand out. The other colours include reds and white, the red is effective with the white background and against the colour black as because it is quiet a bright colour itself draws the eye of the audience in and as it is against black it stands out even more.
This is the cover for Journeys - Greatest hits album. Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by the American rrock band Journey, released on November 15, 1988. The compilation is the band's biggest-selling CD/Album to date spending over 760 weeks on the Billboard pop album charts and selling over 15 million copies as of 2008. - wikipedia The title of the artist is merged into the border of the album, so unlike the rest of the covers I have analysed it isn't the most dominent aspect of the entire cover. As the name is merged into the bored at first you may not realise it but when you see it you automatically know it there everytime you look at it.
The image is the dominent aspect of the album cover, straight away you can see that it is centered which give the feel of dominance within the cover. The image is an icon of Journey itself as it is on various of covers. When the target audience are looking for the album and they see this image they will straight away know that it is Journey. This is an effective way of advertising the band as everytime the target audience see this icon they will resemble it with them and if they are a fan they will want to see what the advertisement is about. So instead of just having the name of the band in a font which will stand out to the public eye they use the icon so the audience know it is the band that is being advertised.
The colour redish background against the main image as even though it includes some of the same colour as background it includes the colour blue towards the edges which makes the image stand out. With this cover a lot of the colours are the same but are used agaisnt each other which makes them all stand out individually. The title of the album 'Greatest Hits' is the smallest aspect on the cover but as it is in a bold black font it helps it to stand out by itself.
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