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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Pussycat Dolls Album Cover Deconstruction

Pussycat Dolls - Doll Domination

Front
  • One main image - Long Shot, slightly low angle
  • On motorbikes on a road
  • Posed in a powerful way - emphasising 'domination'
  • Background is lots of famous landmarks - silhouetted and faded
  • Each bike has the initial of their first names - fans will know their names and therefore recognise this
  • Road is painted with different names of cities - taking over the world and enforcing 'domination'
  • Girls are central and biggest thing on the cover - selling them as they are most important
  • Dominant colours are nautical - showing power and sexiness
  • Pussycat Dolls logo at the top of the album between the two words of the title - shows importance of them and are selling them as a band
  • Bold but simple font - focus on the image and band logo rather than the font
  • White font on red banner continuing the nautical theme
  • Directly addressing the camera - flirting with the camera and enticing people to buy the album
  • Title acts as a headline for the image and anchors it well - small in comparison
  • Very little clothes - provocative nature and iconic sexy image of the band
  • Midriff's on show - showing off their dancers body and using it to sell the album
  • Nicole Scherzinger in the middle showing she is the most important
  • It is a cover where girls aspire to be like them and men fantasise over them - using their sexuality and perfection to sell the album
  • Typical 'perfect' girl group image with hair blowing, full makeup, perfect bodies, fashionable clothing - mainstream

Back
  • Black, red and white are main colours - connect back and front and are nautical theme again
  • Song numbers are in red and titles in black distinguishing between the numbers and titles of the song
  • The titles of the songs are in bold and any collaborations are in lower case - importance of title over collaboration artists
  • Main image is central and takes up most of the space - band are the most important things and will sell the album
  • Main image is of the band posing on a bar - long shot and slight low angle
  • Very little, sexy clothing - iconic of the band and using their perfect bodies and sexiness to sell the album and promote the band image
  • Posing in flexible positions - iconic of the band and drawing on the dancers side of the band in order to sell it
  • Nicole Scherzinger is central showing she is the most important
  • Same road is used in the image showing a link between the back and front covers
  • Directly addressing the camera again - enticing in the audience
  • Using the fact that girls will want to be like them and guys will want to be with them in order to promote the artist
  • Bar code on the right hand side
  • Bold and simplistic font - does not draw attention away from the main feature, the band
  • Fashionably clothed, full makeup, perfect hair, perfect bodies - typical mainstream girl group
  • Institutional information is small in comparison to the other information - insignificant in comparison to the band as that is what is selling the album

Spine
  • Name of the band
  • Title of the album
  • Both take a central position as these are the most important things as that is what audiences will look for when looking for albums that have been stacked away
  • Same bold, simple font tying it in with the covers
  • Same cream background used tying it in with the covers
  • Serial number and record label in smaller font at either end - not as important but still needed on the spine
  • Very simplistic compared to the rest of the album cover - just tells basic information as it is needed to do the job quickly

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