CD cover analysis

CD cover analysis

Band - Sum 41
Album - Does this look infected?


Camera Work

- The angle is slightly lower than an eye level shot, but the character's face is not looking directly at the camera, instead he is looking off diagonally as if the character is talking to someone else not being viewed.

- The shot is a close up of the man's face, making the image appear even more frightening and disturbing, as if the person is right there in front of your eyes.


Editing

- This CD cover uses a combination of photography and animation, the man shown in the centre of the image is a photograph, having been photo shopped to portray the blood and gore more clearly, however there is a cartoon image of a woman in the bottom left corner, showing a particularly shocked face, this makes the image seems slightly more comic, as opposed to grim and frightening.


Mise en scene

- The background colour of the image is bright green, this has links to cartoon animation and also adds to the humorous effect the image may present, as it is not a natural colour, so this could relate to the picture not being a natural image.

- Other bright colours that are used to increase this particular cover's link to for example comic strips/pop art, is the yellow of the woman at the bottom of the picture which strongly resembles that of pop art, as well as the bold blue in which the name of the band is written.

- The facial expression of the man in the main image seems to be of a slight smirk, that he is amused, which gives an air of uncertainty, as to who he is looking at and what is wrong with him.

- The make up is used to make the blood and gore on his face extremely obvious, so that it is clear that this is the main image, and the title of the album links directly to the image itself.


This CD cover, slightly influenced our own cover because we also used bright colours and had a close up of our band as the main image. The photo of our band is slightly jokey, making them seem more fun, which links to this image slightly as it is also supposed to be funny in a way.
However this picture uses an actor as their main image, as does our music video and two of our inserts, as opposed to the band, making this CD cover again similar to our project.