On type of illustrative photography is on Cd covers. These images on the front are important as they portray the way the artist is and whet there songs are like. Depending on what genre the artist or band are, we can normally tell from the CD cover what type of music they do. For example in pop music the covers normally show the artist on the front either just there face or there whole body. The background is normally something plain or something that represents them in a good way. For example the on the Rihanna CD cover it shows a full image of her face another album that shows just the face is Adele’s album. Adele’s album shows her looking relaxed and the image is black and white. This makes to think straight away that the album is quiet relaxed and chilled back.
A rap or R ‘n’b album is different as they tend to have dark backgrounds and don’t normally show their faces up close there normally far away or have their backs towards the camera. An example of this is Lil Wayne’s album cover , This album cover is dark and shows him standing in the street. This makes you feel that he is quiet bad and that the album isn’t going to relaxed like the Adele album. The darkness of the back also makes you think that the lyric’s in the songs are going to be dark and talk about bad times.
With indie music there images on the CD covers normally give off a fresh and old feeling to it. For example Mumford and sons album they have a image of building which the band standing the window of the shop. It’s sort of hides the identity of the band as you can’t see them up close , so you don’t really know what they look like.
This album is Olly Murs and its of the pop genre , this is a bit different to your normal pop music CD. As it shows the artist being shown in any different positions but there are a few images of him. Although the background is typical to a normal pop CD as it is plain. This Illustration makes you think that he artist is fun, bubbly and happy and that the music would be the same.
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This is a pop Cd cover from jessie j. This is a typical pop music cd cover as it is a bright cover but it is a close up of her face.
This is an album cover from example, his music is of the pop/dance genre. The illustration makes you think that he has to types of personality as one is in the dark and one like. This could also be suggesting at his music is like this or that he has two different types of music.
This album cover is for Chase and status they produce Dance music. This illustration cover doesnt show us what the band look like .
This is ed sheerans album and it is for a pop album. This is very basic and plain.
Book illustrative photography
On the front covers of books the illustrative photography is different to CD covers. The images on the front of a book normally represent something that is important to the book ,maybe a character and a location that is also important to the book. The images on books have to be good representation of the book and they also have to be eye catching as buyers of the book s will be looking mainly for a picture that catches their eye the most. People buy books differently to when they buy CD’s as when people buy CD’s they look for a artist because they like their music but with books, if they don’t know a author they will look at the covers to see what one appeals to them more.
Many books will have there photo’s done on a location not in a studio with a plain background, this is because the location normally tells us what the books about and what genre it is. For example if a couple on the beach like “Dear john” You automatically think that its a romantic book . With romantic books the colour a normally bright and happy colours , such as whites , blues and pinks.
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If the book was a horror , the images on the front covers are normally very eerie , For example the images would be of isolated places . The colours that they normally use for Horror books are Blacks and darks blues.
On Autobiography they photography on the front is normally of the person. In this image they want to show the buyers to show what they are really like , they do this so people wanted to buy it will like the look of the person as it might reflect what their book is like. For example The Michael Mcintyre book so him laughing, which makes you think that the book is funny and fun.
