This document provides descriptions of three album covers: 1) Avril Lavigne's "The Best Damn Thing" album cover features her against a wall with pink highlights in her hair. The skull and heart logo represents what she's been through. 2) The back cover of the album shows Lavigne in heavy makeup, continuing her punk persona. Song titles are printed in a stylized, rebellious font. 3) Tom Odell's album cover uses a simple, monochrome design with his blurred background portrait to match the relaxed atmosphere of his music. Song titles are placed on a brick wall for effect.

1. Avril Lavinge-
Album cover ‘the Best Damn Thing’
This album cover is simple with lavigne against a wall. The bright pink
highlights in her hair stand out and are vivid due to the background
and the clothes she is wearing. The album logo on the front cover
portrays the ‘punk’ side to both Avril as a person and to her music and
the visuals to her music. The Skull bones over the heart may have
resemblance to the album title ‘the best damn thing’, her heart is still
there and is still stong but it has had a lot of things happen, this reflets
in the lyrics of the songs on this album.
The back cover of this album is a close up portrait of Lavigne where
she is wearing heavy make up, this is a portrayal of her ‘punk’ and
‘skater girl’ persona. The stars printed on the right hand side of the
back cover tie in line with the skull heart on the top left corner on the
Front cover. The text on the back cover where we can see the name
of songs on the album. The text looks as if it has been stenciled and
graphitised onto the paper and portrays a rebellious yet childish look
to the back cover. The pink from her hair has followed through onto
the text and ‘stamp’ images.
At the bottom of the back cover you can see the record label , the
producers, the song mixers, rights to the record label and a barcode
for the public’s purchasing.

2. The text used on this album cover is very simple, the colours are
monochrome and font is plain. Although the font is plain it ha
effect, it reads easily and is clear to the audience. The picture on
the album’s cover is a medium shot of Tom Odell. The shot is
focused on him, the background is blurred. Not only does this
album cover relate to the simplicity of the album cover in which I
hope to create but it is very effective. This image of Odell works
well with songs on the album because of the relaxed atmosphere
his music gives to listeners.
Tom Odell
The back of the album cover shows the audience the songs on the
album and the titles have been placed onto a brick walks for effect. To
the left of this frame you can see Tom walking up stair, wearing a
‘hipster’ outfit. A blue shirt, skinny jeans, brown Chelsea boots and a
bomber jacket. This is a portrayal of his music. At the bottom of this
cover there is a barcode, the record label’s name, producers names.
The text on the background is also simple and is written in white for
effect and so that it is able to stand out against the background, a brick
wall.

3. Ron Pope- Existing single cover
This is the album cover for ‘A Drop In The Ocean’
by Ron Pope. The artist who I chose for my A2
Media, final. You can see that the cover for this
single is very simple, two colours have been
used for the font. Red for the song title and
black for the artist's name. The font Is bold and
stands out on the monochrome, black and white
colour schemed photo graph on Ron Pope.
I think that this photo portrays Ron as a person,
dressed simply, a leather coat, a white t-shirt. He
has shoulder length breaking the stereotype of
men having short hair. His persona fits in well
with his genre of music ‘