Album cover analysis

ANALYSIS OF EXSISTING ALBUM COVERS!!

It is really important that i am able to identify typical conventions of sucessful album covers currently avaliable on the market today because this will aid me in desiging and creatuing my music magazine. It is also important for me to analyise current album covers as i can identify the genre and then trasmitt their genre specific conventions into my own product after establishing my product.

Baby BoomersOptimistic, explore, ambitious, highly competitive, motivated by $$ and position, value team work, personal growth and involvement, independent, overachievers, wealth

Traditionalists, Matures, VeteransDedicated employees, loyal to the organization, hard workers, value rules, conformity, and authority, patriotic

1922- 1945

Generation XNixon/Watergate, energy crisis, latch-key kids, stock market crash, fall of Berlin Wall, Challenger explodes, Operation Desert Storm, Rodney King riots, MTV, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, alternative rock, AIDS

Generation Y/MillennialsTerrorism, bombings: World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Atlanta Olympics, Madrid & London subways, 9/11, school violence: Columbine, Virginia Tech, & Beslan (Russia), technology boom, Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, reality TV, move back home with parents

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1946-1964

1965-1980

1980-2000

After2000

iGen (Gen Z, Nexters)Influential market share, technologically savvy, social media influencers, Face time, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, iPod, iPhone, tablet, diverse, pop-culture, Sandy Hook school shootings, home-schooled, stay at home parent, social life is online, cyber bullying

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GENERATIONAL EVENTS