Research into CD covers and promotional posters!

The fact that our protagonist is a female and is a solo artist I looked and researched into Beyonce and Christina Aguilera CD covers which were our main inspirations.

                                                         

We chose a picture for the cover of our CD from a selection of photos from our location shoot. I edited the photo on photoshop in black and white to make it look retro and tie in with the vintage theme. We took the idea of the letters 'Why dont you love me?' from Beyonce's cover and took it to the next level by taking a reallife newspaper, cutting letters out and sticking them to the blank paper- we then took the picture of our creation and uploaded it to photoshop and using the lasso tool created the desired effect. After we edited the initial 'Mamma knows best' we added the sepia effect and that complete our design.

Both CD covers follow conventions as the female is the central focus and uses her feminine traits to appeal to the male gaze, however also appeals to other females as our cover has a balance of colour, minimalistic editing and make up but effective.

Eminem's advertisement poster for his album 'Recovery' was more appealing to me as it had the date of release and more information in general on, whereas destinys childs poster didn't really contain much information.

Destiny's Child:
Poster                                                                    CD cover
  


Eminem:
              Poster                                                                                   CD cover