Music Album Covers

In this blog post I will be writing about the history, features. what I personally might expect to see on an album cover from more than one point of view and the definition of an album cover.

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.

Firstly, one thing that I personally would expect to see on an album cover is something relevant to either the name of the band or the genre of music, or something to do with the headlining song, for example, oasis's album cover for their album 'Whats the story morning glory' has the album title on it, and also the image looks rather calming, which links to there style of music.

But from another point of view, most people would not have a specific expectation towards album covers, since almost every band has completely irrelevant album covers or close to, to there genre and doesn't really relate to their band name or anything else. For example, the famous rock band Guns N' Roses, they have an album called 'Appetite for destruction', that name doesn't exactly relate to their music, and the album cover doesn't relate to the band in the slightest since theres an image of a 'rape' scene, and due to this the album cover was banned, so the band had to change their album cover for their album to be released.

Lastly, the features of an album cover sometimes don't relate to anything to do with either the band or the name of the album, but album covers can be extremely simple and still relate to the name of the album or the band and still be effective, such as Metalica's album 'Black'.

Music Videos

In this blog post you will see 3 music videos, one reminding me of my childhood, one reminding me of a significant person or moment in my life and one present that means something to me and why.



This first video reminds me of being a child since when I was a child I was extremely immature and I did cover my ears and make noises when I didn't want to listen to someone and is also a new song.

This second video reminds me of something significant and important to my life as its the career path iv chosen to go down ever since I was 8 years old, Dance, this was one of the first songs I made a choreography to.

This third video reminds me of a significant person who is my best mate and when this song came out, I started listening to the music genre, Rock.

Introduction

This is my new blog, in this blog I will be posting my A2 Media Studies coursework throughout the oncoming year such as all the course work leading up to the music video we plan on creating.