Although the Album Cover has no particular relevance to the course, it has enabled me to get a better understanding of how to use Photoshop, which will hopefully become useful when we get round to producing our two Print Texts - the DVD Cover and Magazine Advert for the DVD.
As part of the research for this project, I looked at album covers. The album cover that I have made here coincides with a few of the codes and conventiones I found in my research. For example, the use of a large image of the artist, that dominates the cover. I have also used contrasting colours between both the background and the picture, and the background and the text, to make it stand out more. The font of the text that I have used for this is quite bright and bold, which reflects the sort of content of the song. The idea of having the text at angles also helps to make it stand out.
Although I have used some codes and conventions, I also believe there are some that I have missed. The fact that there is suggestive content in the lyrics of the song, should warrant there being an age rating somewhere on the cover, which I have not included. The picture I have used also isn't in the central third of the cover, which means it doesn't draw as much attention as it could.
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