Evaluation.Conventions – Ancillary Products

Conventional Layout

The layout of the album cover follows a conventional album cover

that features an image of the band. The album cover follows the

route of the eye concept as the person looking at the album will

look at the band name to see who produced the album. They will

then look at what the album is called and finally look at the image

of the band. This conventional layout would hopefully entice the

person to buy it as they will look at the whole of the album cover.

The album cover doesn’t look too cluttered and its straight to the

point with the name of the album, the band name and the album

name.

The layout of the magazine advert for an album release I feel I quite

conventional. It displays some aspects of what was on the album, for

example, the same image of the band. This helps the two products

work together in promoting the album. In most album adverts positive

quotes on the album are used and they are usually positioned at the

centre bottom of the page so the person looking at the advert looks at

what the advert is and what band its from and then they read the

feedback. Rather than reading feedback at the top of the page when

they don’t know what its about. The layout is featured on a portrait

page as adverts in magazines are rarely seen as a double page spread.

Comparing Conventional Layout

The Razorlight album cover shares similar conventions to my

created ablum cover. The Band name is positioned at the top of

the album cover and the band image is centred in the middle of

the page. It follows route of the eye as the person looking at the

album will look at the album name/band name then will look

across as the band members from left to right. The album cover

is conventional to indie-rock as it isn’t too cluttered and is quite

simple too.

The layout of the Kasabian magazine advert is conventional

and similar to my created magazine advert. The advert layout

has the main image which is featured on the album in the

centre of the page. It then has the quotes underneath with the

tagline ‘The New Album’ which is in bold black writing

which stands out.

Conventions of Back CoverThe layout of the back cover is quite conventional with the shot list

of the left-hand side and the title at the top of the cover. The back

cover includes the song-list because this where a song-list most

often appears on an album. Having the record label on the back of

the album is conventional as it promotes the record labels music as

well as the album music. The copyright text always appears on the

back of an album cover along with other features such as the bar

code. The colours used are quite dark and negative colours, dark

colours often are associated with indie-rock. The image used on the

back is an effective convention as it shows the back of the lead

singer and it’s the back of the album so its as if you can see the

front of the lead singer on the front and the back of the lead singer

on the back. The lead Singer being shown on his own on the back

emphasises his leading role in the band.

Album Title

Song-list (Left side)

Copyrights information

Record Label

Barcode on Back

CD Design and Album Strip Conventions

The CD cover I have created is conventional as it

relates to the consistency to the albums house style.

The artwork is similar to the from of the album and

the title also features on the CD cover. The image of

the lead singer is used on the CD to emphasize

further that he is the main person within the band, it

shows he is the lead singer.

The Kasabian CD cover is conventional as it links

with the front cover of the four images positioned

around the CD and album cover. The colours of

black and white are consistent on both album and

CD and the simple non cluttered style is used on

both.

The Side album strip is a conventional cover as

most album strips show the band name in the

same font style and the same album name in the

same font on the side. The background is the

same colour so it is consisted like other albums

that are on the market.