album research

The James Morrison album is quite simple but effective. the picture of him works well with the title of the album undiscovered. The font adds to the album being not simple but not too much. It looks quite depressing which could link to the music on the album.
i think the picture works well as you know straight away who you are listening to and its not complicated to understand like some albums are. the font also works well with the colours linking to the background.

Paolo Nutini's album is very eyecatching with the bright colours and the different pictures of the same person. Compared to other acoustic albums it stands out and is bright where as acoustic ones tend to be quite dull and not use the colours this has. the font could be remembered and linked to him so this worked well using it.
i think that it works well by breaking the usual conventions of acoustic albums and challenging it. the bright colours may it catch the eye so people could choose this instead of quite a dull one.

James Blunt's album also challenges the acoustic album conventions. it still uses a faceshot like other ones do but it colourful and different. the different pictures leading back to him make it different but stand out at the same time. the font works well and the eye is easily drawn to the simple and not too bright title.
i think the different colours work well together, and it isn't too complicated but at the same time is eyecatching and quite attractive.

Jason Mraz's album is quite different to the other ones looked at. it involves him in a location rather than the other ones that use a single faceshot. the font is also eyecatching as it is completely different to other simple fonts used. it is quite unique and the spaceship with the lightning bolt could be very easily recognisable to him. the scene links to the picture as it is called ' Geek in the pink' and the location is a school.
i think this really challenges the conventions of the acoustic genre but does it well and gets away with it.






after looking at several albums it looks like the faceshot is quite popular within the genre whilst using bright colours and fancy fonts. It is the same but different. it needs to be different to catch people's eye but at the same time link to the genre to be easily noticed.





vicky wright