Lesson on Album Art

In our lesson about album art, we were told to bring in some of the albums we owned, along with one that we wanted to talk about. While talking, we would need to be thinking about composition/ colours etc and how those things appealed to the target audience.

Initially in the lesson, we displayed all the albums around a table, and thought of conventions that all/most had with each other.

They include:

• Album/artist name
• Shot of the artist/band
• Tracklist
• Barcode
• Institutions (Record Label etc)

We then thought of ways we could categories the albums,

Some categories were:

• Colour
• Solo artist/ band
• Genre
• Target Audience
• Concept or picture of artist
• Era (Decade etc)

The discussion continued with each of us talking about an album we brought in. I talked about Lana Del Rey's 'Born To Die' and the interesting spin of the American Dream with songs such as 'Born To Die', and her upright, almost soldier-like pose. Also, the main colour palette of the album consists of red, white and blue, further portraying that idea.