Collision Course Album Cover

• This cover is pretty typical of a cover for a linkin park album cover as mike shinoda - one of the vocalists and guitar players in the band - is always on the project design team who also cover the design of their album covers. He draws anime so it isnt surprising that the album cover has an anime feel to it. The colour of the whole cover gives it an earthy feel as the prodominant colours are brown and orange. there are also quite a few musical images for example a keyboard, mic, speakers, guitars...

• there isnt much text on the front cover jus the artist name and the name of the abum. the name of the artists is larger than the album name. the linkin park is also bigger than jay z's suggesting they had more of an input... they are both the same font style - stencil - but different colours. artist names: blue and wite, and album colour: orange. all the text is in the centre of the cover as well. any extra info is put on a sticker. on the back cover the headings are inthe same font as the text o the front jus a smaller size and in black. the rest of the text is similar to arial and either blue or black

• On the front cover the text is infront of the images, however on the back the images are interrupted by a white 'splash' which is covered by the text. on the inside cover on the first two pges the pictures are the background for the text, however for the rest of the booklet the bottom of the pages are especially for the text and the rest of the pg is for pics of the band members etc.

• The artists and their record labels are mainstream esp jay z who produces music himself etc. the cover shows the fact that they have the money because of the fact that the package not onlii contains a CD bt also a DVD as well qas d fact that the cover is a cardboard, 3 folded cover and the animation runs throughout the cover and is also consistent to the inside cover.

• the potential target audience is oviously quite a modern audience ie late teens to early 30as mainly because of the anime-grafitti crossover. the grafitti represents jay zs supports while the anime feel is for the linkin park followers.

Different Music Videos: Genres

THE GORILLAZ - They are an elctro/rock band who could also be classed as alternative rock. Their videos are pretty interesting as they are alsways in a cartoon format and they tell a story thaat is loosly connected to the actual song. Heres an example:



NICKELBACK - They are a rock band and like many other rock bands their videos always feteaure the band playing the song either in a concert or in a recording studio. this video as well as the video for theie other song Far Away are an example of this:



MISSY ELLIOT AND CIARA - both hip hop and r'n'b artits have dance as a major part of their video. This is common for most videos of this genre as seen in other artists videos like

The Loose Control video by Missy Elliot is a great example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jlcMVI5xE

As is Ciaras Like A Boy:


BRITNEY SPEARS (early years) - Pop videos as we know it (old school pop like Nsync) have very cheesy dance movement that exaggerate the lyrics in the song:


nsync are the epitemy of the old school boy band as they have a bunch of girls dancing around them as well as having the cheesy boy band moves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIwm9jUjLvk
this song in general sums up the pop genre and the video jus emphasises the ideas they talk about in the song