Album cover research.

To decide what album cover to use we looked at covers from real life products. The first image we looked at was Taylor swift's 'Fearless' ablum. We thought the imnage for this album was generally good, the mid shot of her swishing her hair is quite cliché, but it is effective for the genre it is used for. The target audience would probably be about 12-18, which is shown in the video and the cover. The text on the album cover is very large and clear, which is good because the colours used are quite bland. Overall, the album cover is good and would be useful for us because we are looking at attracting a similar audience with our products. The second image we looked at was Cheryl Cole's album cover for 'Messy little raindrops'. The image for this is really blurry which works on this cover, but it wouldn't appeal to our target audience, and would make the overall feel quite messy. The text is quite distorted to, which makes it harder to read. Overall, the album cover is messy and wouldn't suit our target audience. We deicded that using an image like this would not suit our products. The final image we looked at was the cover for Jessica Simpson's ' Do you know?' album. The imaghe to this is fairly similar to the Taylor Swift album. However, the use of an actual background is different. The text isn't quite as clear. However the overall feel of the cover is very similar to the Taylor Swift one, this is good because it shows our target audience and gives us a model to gain ideas from. The research has given us a clear direction for what we are going to do with our images and the type of images we are going to take. It set out a clear target audience for us, and will be similar to real life media products.