Final Album Cover

This CD template shows clear measurements of the height, length and width of a common CD cover. This is what I used to make my album cover as it aided me of how to line up my front and back cover.

I intended for my album cover to keep the same content of my artist’s music video by applying the same background which was used in a scene from my artist’s music video. This allows my target audience to become more familiar with my artist as he uses common techniques so the consumers can recognise his style. I didn’t use y first draft as I didn’t believe it was interesting another to appeal to a wide audience as it had a narrative but lacked creativity. By placing the artist in the middle of the backgroun
d, it helped the audience understand who he was although we can not see his eyes at eye length it shows ‘Youth’ which tells us that he is a youthful artist who appeals to young age groups mostly. The background also helps tell the audience of who and what he is as we can see a large finger on the right side pointing at him by the audience reading the album title ‘Real Hip-Hop’ the audience understand that album is telling them that he is what real hip-hop is and he is what we should be interested in. Multiple images are shown on the back of the CD cover showing companies and recording labels these are used to show thanks to the companies as they helped out in the album which is shown on the information on the back CD.

The graffiti background used on the front and back of the album cover represents the hip-hop culture in full this building a relationship with the consumers as they understand what culture he is from thus drawing their attention to the album cover even more, this makes the consumer look at the back also reading the songs which appear and information which is given.

My inside cover shows two basic portraits of my artist. The first image on the right shows a medium shot of the artist looking straight at the camera behind a brick wall this shows his features and facial expressions more than the front cover of the digipack. The second image on the left shows a long shot of the artist showing more of him and surroundings. As the audience can see on the left image the CD is placed on top of it, showing a similar graffiti design to the album cover itself which creates synergy as it becomes easier to identify with the masses due to constant themes being repeated. The CD being placed on top of the left inside image is essential to digipacks as all albums, as it is a common act by all artists of different genres.