3 CD Covers Research

I went to HMV and looked at the CD racks and chose 3 CDs that caught my eye.

Green Day: American Idiot

This was the first CD that caught my eye. It caught my eye because the colours really contrast with each other. The text is also very big and blocked up, similar to the image of the heart grenade. I looked at the song list and American Idiot is one of their songs; it doesn't link to the image on the side of it, however I really like the use of imagery of the heart and grenade as it suggests the type of music that is on the CD. For the codes and conventions they have followed it by using their artist name and title. This isn't in our genre as it is more punk rock and grungy, which can be seen from the style of the CD cover.

Panic! At The Disco: Death Of A Bachelor

This CD really caught my eye because of the high use of colour and the busyness of it compared to the first album that I saw. I really like the creativeness through the use of the line work to make it look animated against the real image behind it of the pool and the person to the right hand side. I also like how small the text is as it doesn't ruin the effect of the image; however it may mean that if people were looking for this artist, they would find it difficult to find because it isn't selling the artist's name in big letters like Green Day's. They have featured the artist in this CD cover, as well as stating the name of the artist and the title of the CD, therefore following the codes and conventions of a CD cover. This is partially in our genre, it has some punk influences, however there are aspects of pop in the music too.

Catfish & The Bottlemen: The Ride

Lastly, I this album caught my eye because of the simplicity of it. I really like how effective, yet simple it still is. With the use of one image it could represent the album or the artist in some way. The contrasting colours is a really simple idea again, with the use of black and white. I think that the image is also effective and eye catching because it is in the centre of the CD cover. In this they have used an image of the alligator, not following the convention of having the picture of the artist, however they have used the name and title on the cover.