Codes  and  conventions  of  album  artwork  Focused  genre:  Folk/Acous1c  

The   yellow   colour   tone   connotes   a  posi1ve,  happy  feel  to  the  audience.  This  matches   the  music   genre.   The   sketched  image  also  shows  that  the  acous1c  ar1st  is   very   individual,   and   the  music   style   is  very   so?.   I   no1ced   a   common  conven1on   of   folk   is   that   the   text   is  placed   in   a   very   ar1s1c   way.   This  contrasts   from   (for  example)  pop  album  covers   which   have   the   common   text   of  the  ar1st  in  a  larger  font  along  the  top  or  in  the  middle.  

This   artwork   uses   colour   tones   to  connote   the   calm   feel   to   the   audience.  Whereas   the   previous   image   uses   an  obvious   image  of  an  acous1c  guitar,  this  album  cover  uses  curved,  easy  shapes  to  portray   the   correct   feeling   to   the  audience.   The   text   is   printed   in   two  places   to   add   to   the   ar1s1c   side   of   the  artwork.  This  matches  the  music  genre.  

This   artwork   is   drawn   in   a   pencil   sketched  style,   this   connotes   a   individual   style,   and  portrays  that  the  ar1st  is  unknown.  I  think  this  is   done   to  make   the   audience   feel   as   if   they  are  the  first  person  to  discover  the  ar1st.  The  text  does  not  follow  the  common  conven1ons  of   folk   genre   album   covers,   however,   the  pencil  sketch  font  does  make  it  successful.  

This  is  very  similar  to  the  album  artwork  (seen  above)  in  the  way  that  the  image  is  printed  in  a  pencil   sketch  style.    Again,   this  portrays  an  indie   feel   to   the   audience.   The   text   used   in  this   image   is  printed   to   look   like  a   signature,  done  to  portray  individuality.