Research into cd covers

After producing a music video the second part of our brief was to create an album cover and back, as well as an advertisement for the cd and song that used.
To get a general idea of conventions on cd covers, I analysed some which in turn gave me plenty of ideas for my own cd cover.

Here is an image of Karima Francis' original album cover. As she has not released any singles or music videos, this was the only thing of hers that we could analyse.

As you can she the album is very simple and subtle. Karima Francis is used as the main iconic star to portray to the audience that she is the main focus. Karima Francis is a very alternative, indie looking individual. I feel that by having the background colour as red against the amazing afro of hair that she has allows the cover to be visually enticing to its audience. Also, as the artist is posed looking down to the ground, you can tell that she is a serious artist, dedicated to music. As it would be obvious with brighter colours and a smiley face that the album would then be a sort of pop genre, happy, energetic album.

These two cd covers are artists which are similar to Karima Francis that I analysed previously in the project. Here, like Karima Francis the too have self-portrait image of themselves on the cover. Again like Kairma Francis, Tracey Chapman has kept the cd cover simple with only her image and name, whereas Alanis Morisette has used her image but also edited the cover to give it that softer effect and make it look like scenary; trees, branches and leaves.