Production - Album Cover

This is a prototype Album Cover for Joe Cocker that I created using Photoshop:

Although the Album Cover is not one of our ancillary items, we created this as a practice or 'dry run' for the real production project. Doing so helped to remind ourselves of how to use Macromedia Fireworks and helped spawn our creativity. The album cover features a few of the codes and conventiones in traditional album covers. For example, the use of a large image of the artist, that dominates the cover. I have also used contrasting colours between both the background and the picture, and the background and the text, to make it stand out more. The font of the text that I have used for this is quite bright and bold, which reflects the sort of content of the song. The idea of having the text at angles also helps to make it stand out.

Although I have used some codes and conventions, I also believe there are some that we have missed. The fact that there is suggestive content in the lyrics of the song, should warrant there being an age rating somewhere on the cover, which I have not included. The picture I have used also isn't in the central third of the cover, which means it doesn't draw as much attention as it could.