Completed Album Cover

Above is the completed version of the album cover I would use to sell my product. I have chosen this style as it uses most of the forms and conventions that you would normally find in the rock music genre. For example, I have chosen to highlight the logo of the band for the audiences purposes as this will be recognizable and could be used in other branches that have broken off from rock music such as the trends that follow it such as fashion, where this band logo could appear.

I have also chosen to use dark colours such as Black, grey, white and red as these colours are normally used to represent the music content, for example if some tracks are aggressive it would be out of place to have a happy and upbeat album cover as this can be misconceived by the audiences as it does not fit in with the forms and conventions or the audiences and institutions.

The album cover which I have produced has the bands name bigger then the actual name of the album because in rock music the band is the most important thing to the audience as it is the band that they follow. By knowing this, the album name is much smaller on the cover because it is of less significance in attracting an audience as it is not the name of the album which will make it sell it is the band and their content.

Above is a completed version of what the back cover will look like. On the back I have included a barcode, details of issued license and copyright for Hi- Fidelity Records. I have done this not only because it ould appear on real CD's as it is done to keep the album protected from being copied as it has been copyrighted but I have also done this as it will promote the label 'Hi- Fidelity Records' as the audience that purchase the album might look at what label it has been released on. I have also done this as a promoting tool because I have included the website for the record lable.

I chose to stick with the forms and conventions used in this music genre for the album back cover because I have included a massive picture of the band on the back because this will attract the audiences as the band will or should be recognizable to them. I have also done this because once again they are the main focus and they appear to be having fun in the picture so the audience could have previously just seen the serious side of them performing but now understand what they are like so they have been represented to the audience in a positive light.

The song listing appears on the right hand side and features the song 'Hate' which I created a music video for. The listing appears on the right hand side of the cover as it is parallel to the picture and it is bold and stands out to the audeince aswell as the picture because it is extremely important for the audience to see the content of the band and what they are releasing on that particular CD.

I have kept the colour scheme the same for example the colour of the text and also the background colour as the colours used are the typical forms and conventions that are frequently used in the rock genre. I have used it to show consistany also.