Album/CD cover analysis
This is the album cover for the song we have chosen to do.
As we have chosen to use Lady Gaga as the inspiration for our music video, we researched some of her album covers, as we have to create either an album cover for a poster for our media task. The layout of her album covers seems to follow the same trend, simple and neat, usually using a close up picture of her face. My favourite cover is ‘The Fame’ cover, as she has an unusual pair of sunglasses on covering her eyes, making her look mysterious. The covers usually have the album title at the bottom of the case underneath Lady Gaga’s face. Me and my group all like the covers we have looked at, but as we are in a group we think that we could challenge ourselves more with an album cover rather than just close ups of our faces. Therefore we think we will contrast these album covers and create an original idea.The style of the album covers is quite controversial, for example she has an album where she is posing sexily for a mug shot. This is a controversial idea and me and my group do like the idea of something that will challenge society. The art on the front of the covers is also eye-catching, with either a dark background and her face in colour, or everything dark and just one item brightly coloured. Lady Gaga’s images are never animated, they are all real life, as she is a strong character with strong beliefs, and animating her images would make them seem a little childish and without meaning.As Lady Gaga is a pop singer, there are signs of this on her album covers, the modern funky and stylish looks she conveys with her outfits highlights the pop genre. However she also contrasts this genre and can look very rock on her album covers, for example using darker colours and having ruff cut hair with dark make up sometimes running down her face. Lady Gaga’s look has branded her as ‘strange’ in the public eye. This also can be seen in her covers, ash she has strange hair cuts in a few of her covers, and also eye-catching make-up. Her outfits are also very bizarre, one being a dress made completly of triangles. This has given Lady Gaga the ‘strange’ title.Lady Gaga is also very Americanisd and highlights this on her album covers with her looks and style. Her album cover is to highlight what the album will sound like and what type of artist Lady Gaga is. This is what our album will have to do to be successful. So we are going to both use characteristics from Lady Gaga’s covers and use our own origional ideas.
We also reasearched into other album covers from artists similar to Lady Gaga, and more of Lady Gagas covers.
This album cover again highlights the rock side of Lady Gaga, her darker side, as the makeup she uses is very similar to hard core rock bands album covers.
This image of Kiss shows their make up is similar but a lot more dramatic compared to Lady Gagas, this could highlight the convergence of the music genres over the years, as they are a lot more mixed then they used to be, for instance, Jay z has appeared along side Linkin Park in 'Numb' This is a hip hop artist and a rock band appearing together. Again this highlights the convergence between genres that Lady Gaga also highlights
