Album covers

1 What are the typical features that an album cover has?
- Include the artists name/band name
- images if the artist/artists
- The name of the album

2 How could you categorise the covers in front of you?
- The different colour schemes used
- The artist images on the front of the album

3 Album covers serve many different functions. What do you think these are?
- to make people aware of the album
- to make the album stand out from others on the shelf
- to portray the star image through the cover
- to portray the genre of the album and the contents of the album
- to generate publicity as people may talk about the album cover