Album Cover Mood Board

Above is the mood board I made for lots of different bands and artists album/cd covers. They all each belong to different genres of music, and this varies from pop music such as Lady Gaga, electro/house music like Skrillex often referred to as dubstep, and rock music such as Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, etc. All of this cd cover art, each has different elements, colours, shapes and ideas which make the album cover appealing to the audience eye, and makes you want to listen to their CD to find out what they're music is about. It is interesting to see that the pop/electro/rock cd covers each have different elements which differentiate them between their genres. Pop artists such as Lady Gaga and Katy Perry have album covers which incorporate brighter, more enlightening colours such as pink, purple and white which all have rather positive connotations. The electro music uses more jaggedy shapes and sharper colours like electric blue, electric green, and a metallic silver which automatically portrays the idea of this more modern form of music. Finally the rock genre which belongs to artists such as Slipknot, Paramore and Motionless In White, uses colours such as black, red and grey which all have darker, violent more emotional and passionate connotations, which again is what rock/emo music is all about. When looking at the cd covers above there are a couple of conventional features which are used throughout all the cd covers regardless of the genres of the music being portrayed. We see that the main part of the album cover which stands out noticably more than anything else is the name of the band or artists being portrayed in the cd album, because if we look above we can see even on cd covers such as Lamb of God, who use rather dark colours to portray the darker type of music they play, use relatively light colours such as white for the colour of the font of the name of the artist/band to make it stand out against the dark colours of the cover art, meaning this is the first thing we see when we look at the cd cover. The next thing we see is either a close up or mid shot of the artists face or a long shot if the cd cover is presenting a band, the image of the artist/band essentially looks quite attrractive to appeal to the audience, as well as this the images of the females or males which appear on the front cover are clearly photoshopped too look attrative to the males and females which will be looking at the cd cover, which is another thing in todays modern music industry which attaracts a wider following. Despite this it is interesting that the cd covers which belong to the rock/emo genre, are a sharp contrast with the pop music cd covers that we see. The rock music cd covers look slightly less appealing and more disturbing and dark, this is however just too link back to the darker nature of the music, which will then appeal to the type of people which listen to this type of music.