What are the key features of CD covers?

Generally CD covers include these points:

• Name of the artist
• Name of the album
• An image
• Colours
• A theme
• Any parental guidance labels if needed

However, it depends on genre to decide which of these feature are included. For example, pop artist albums usually have an image of the artist on the front, whereas heavy metal albums normally have a particular image of something else (something dark and scary).

One famous example of an artist that went against all these conventions was "The White Album" by The Beatles. The front cover was literally just white with no image, no artist name and no album name. This caused a lot of controversy, but became one of the most famous and inspirational album covers of all time.

Whatever is on the cover, all abums must follow a theme as otherwise the cover would be unattractive and confusing. The theme usually relates to the artist and the genre the artist falls under.

Led Zeppelin Website Analysis

This is the homepage of the website for the band Led Zeppelin

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"Muse" website analysis

This is the homepage of the website for the band "Muse"


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www.damienrice.com Analysis

This is the homepage of http://www.damienrice.com/

As you can see, many of the elements from the CD cover design are also present here including the cream background, the childish drawings and simple font. This shows that he has built up this image for himself and when people see these kind of images, they will automatically relate it to him.

Preliminary task

Our task was to remake a small segment from the Britney Spears video for "Hit me baby one more time". We had to keep it as close to the original as possible.


This is the storyboard for our preliminary task. We went through the video shot by shot and drew every single one as closely as possible.

This is the uncut version of our video. This is before we had edited and added any music to the film.