Textual Analysis of a CD cover - Christian Falk - People Say

Part of our task this year is to create a CD design for our chosen artist which relates to the genre that he is under. Due to Tei Daratsa being a Faulk/Rock sort of singer we will be creating a CD cover within this genre.

On the right, we have chosen an artist that is also under this genre, Christian Falk. After this I am going to be analysing it to try and get a grip of the conventions of this type of CD case.

On the CD to the right they have used a very messy font, this would be to agree with the conventions. One of the conventions of which we found with this genre was that they like to keep things different, but as the same time simple. I think that they have achieved this with the font and size of the text. By using large font size they have taken up a lot of space on the CD and given the artists name off well, they have also gone with the conventions of this genre by trying tp be different and having the artists name chopped up onto two different lines, this applies to the conventions as most other artists would not approve of there name being split up, they would like it all upon one line and have it standing out.

Another different part of the CD cover which applies to the conventions os the background colour. By having a simple, light colour they have straight away applied it to the conventions of there genre. In the conventions of this genre, we have stated that the artists are always based in green environemtns like the woods, tress, and grass in the background. By having a light green background colour they have been able to give off that they are straight away going to have these types of songs on there. They have also made this background colour look like it is very uneven, once again inconsistent, going with the genres conventions. Everything within this CD cover has its own way of relating to the song, this is what we are going to have to do when we create our own CD.

In the bottom right hand corner there is a very unusual design which doesnt seem to have any relation to the album, this is a very simple design. This would also link to the conventions of the genre, as a lot of different parts of this genre are to do with simplicity. Artists from this genre like the only attributes to be there voice and the guitar. Therefore having an album cover as simple as this relates to it aswell.

From doing this I have been able to get an idea of what our album could look like. Once I looked through all of the components of this CD I realised that a lot of it is just simple. This made me very intrigued as to what all of the other artists in this genre would have their CD's designed as, so once I started looking through there was a very long pattern, a lof of simple images with guitars.