Katy Perry is a female pop artist, she has designed her album cover with her in the centre of it, this is typical of a solo artists because it is used so that her fans know it is her album. She has used a lot of pink colours on the cover which is typical of a female artist as it is a stereotypical feminine colour, if I were to do make a music video for a female solo artist I would take this into consideration. Perry is also using sex appeal to sell her album by using a picture of her wearing very little, this is to attract male fans to her music, this is also because producers are selling her image as well as her music.
Slipknot is currently an eight-piece heavy metal band, they have shown the whole band on this album cover including previous member Paul Gray, who was the ninth member but passed away in 2010. Showing the whole band is typical of this genres characteristics and will be included in mine if I choose to base my video on a band such as Slipknot. Bright colours are not used in this cover, but dark, dull ones. This is a common feature in band such as Slipknot and other heavy metal bands. The album in called 'All Hope Is Gone', the shot shows a dark, miserable sky which uses pathetic fallacy to establish the mood, the black colour suggesting death and pain.
Eminem is a solo rap artist, and 'Recovery' was his seventh studio album. It was an album following up for from his previous one, 'Relapse', telling the story of how he returned to his addiction to drugs, where 'Recovery' tells us how he overcame this addiction. The album shows what is presumably the artist walking down a long empty road, suggesting the road to recovery. Being involved in drugs is a stereotypical part of the rap genre, so Eminem releasing an album based on leaving his addiction shows how he is breaking the conventions of a rap artist. This influences me to possibly break stereotypical conventions of genre characteristics when I produce my album.
Rihanna in a female R'n'B artist, this is her album 'LOUD', she has used a close photo of her face which is typical of the genre, especially female singers. There is a lot of red used in the picture, emphasising his lips, this is used for sex appeal, similar to the pop artists, It is also similar as it is using the cover to sell the artist as well as her music. The album cover is stereotypical of its genre as most covers of the same genre also feature the artist alone of the cover, when I create my album cover I may include this feature.
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