Friday, 13 December 2013

Conventions Analysis of 3 CD covers belonging to the pop punk genre.

I have decided to look at three existing CD covers in order to identify the common conventions of these products for the pop punk/metalcore genre. I have looked at pop punk in particular as that is more apparent in A Day To Remember's music.



From looking at these CD covers I have identified the following conventions. Each CD cover I have looked at has the band’s name in upper case. The text is much larger than the accompanying text which informs the audience of the title of the album. The title of the album is in much smaller text but usually still in upper case. They all have a main image which are all illustrations or cartoons. This allows the audience to tell the difference between the mainstream genre of music and the pop punk genre, as most mainstream CD covers tend to consist of photographs of the actual artist rather than an illustration or piece of artwork. The colour schemes throughout the CD covers show the connotations of the music and suggest the possible themes which could occur in each track.

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