This is our first attempt at any media text, and it is a front and back cover of a CD cover, we were given the genre of hip hop and rap. Firstly we decided to go for a close up of our artist, as this was his first début album we felt it was important to get his face out there so he was able to become recognisable to the people, so as much facial exposure as possible, we wanted it to be very simple so we just added his name BJB and also V.L which means volume one, giving the idea that more was to come. The font was used as it wasnt too crazy, so nothing was taken from the artist, but it was enough to fit in with conventions of the RnB genre. Due to the fact we are trying to make the artist image, in accordance with Richard Dyer's 'star theory' we added a parental advisory label on it, to give our artist a bad boy image, it also makes the younger male consumer want to buy it even more as it gives them the idea they are being a rebel.
This is our back cover, once again is very basic, but i take great pride in the back cover of this, as it is the back, or looks like the back from the picture from the front cover. We did this to show the consumer all of the artist, to show that there is nothing more than just him, no fancy tricks as you can see all of him.
We had to add in the basic official things like the bar code and the record label, we chose Def Jam as when we did our research we found that they were associated with most other artists like ours. We also added a Blackberry scan code which means that the consumer is able to get closer to the artist and it give the consumer a extra reason to buy our product.
