Artist Album Covers

I have purposely chosen to analyse album covers of artists that are in the same genre of music of the artist that we are using for our music video. This means that when we come to making our album cover, we will have better knowledge of what should be on it.

This is Jack Johnson's album cover for 'In Between Dreams'.

The three houses colours for this cover are black, white and yellow keeping it simple as the picture is black and white, with he yellow only used as a background colour making it stand out. The colour yellow could symbolise sunshine, mellowness and happiness which links with the genre of music as Jack Johnson's songs are acoustic and relaxing to listen to. The image of the tree symbolises nature and has the connotation of the outdoors. Music which you could imagine listening to in the summer, in a field which is exactly what Jack Johnson as an artist represents

Although there is not much white space on the cover, the image takes up a large amount of room, leaving the artists name to look less significant than the picture. This has the connatation of the music being more important than the artist because the image of the man (whos is meant to be Jack Johnson) is more obvious than his name and the album title.
 The album title is 'In Between Dreams' which links in with the image on the front of the cover as I think that it looks like the tree and man are on an island. This symbolises a place that people would think of as a 'dream island' and somewhere that you can go to, to get away from everything. I think that this is what Jack Johnson wants people to feel like when listening to his music, that you can get away from everything and just listen to his music to relax.

This is the album cover for Jason Mraz's debut album 'We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things'.

The house colours for this cover are simply black and white which has the immediate connotation of being very simple. The music and songs on the album are all acoustic and easy going which links with the basic cover. The picture of the man is supposedly of Jason Mraz which looks as though is has been drawn by a child and the font also looks like it has been written by a child. This suggests that the artist is not bothered what the album looks like but is more importantly interested in people listening to his music instead.

There is a large amount of white space on the cover which makes you immediately look at the bold artist name and as there is not much going on it draws you to what the music is like rather than anything else. Having a drawn picture is a simple way of having the artist on the cover, but without having a posy photograph.

This is the cover for Paolo Nutini's album 'Sunny Side Up'.

Firstly, in contrast to the two album covers above this one is cluttered and has house colours of yellow, green, red and white which automatically looks a lot more colourful and catching for the eye when amongst other albums. Paolo's music is once again acoustic, happy and relaxing which links in which the cheerful cartoon image on the front cover. The man in the centre is Paolo, with the view outside being very sunny and picturesque. This has the connotation of happiness, which links which the songs on the album and the music videos for some of his songs which are full of people dancing and 'having a laugh'.

The album title is 'Sunny Side Up' which links to the rainbow and sunshine outside on the cover, but also expresses the saying when it is used in the kitchen. The eggs on the table link to the title as it is the saying that people say when cooking eggs.

The artist's name is clearly shown at the top of the cover which is noticeable and in white, standing out from the rest of the complex cartoon on the front.