Album Cover Research

Katy Perry

One of the boys




Font 

With the font saying "Katy Perry" we can see that it is pink with a white outline. With this we can say that this is a stereotypical girly font, we can say that Katy Perry is trying to give her album a childish girly theme.

With the font saying " One of the boys" we can see that this is now a blue font, with this we can discuss the fact that now this is using a stereotypical boy colour of blue. Knowing that in the title of the album it discusses boys we can suggest that Katy perry is trying to appeal to the gender of girls and boys by using the colours which stereotypically symbolizes them.


mise en scene - Costume

With Katy Perry's costume we can see that she looks colourful but she also looks relaxed. Also if you look at the colour of her clothes we can see that they are similar colours to the font with this we can discuss again how Katy Perry is trying to attract the audiences of males and females.

Another thing that we can talk about with the costume is that Katy Perry has clothes which aren't covering up most of her body. With this we can discuss how she is trying to use sex appeal to bring in more audiences

mise en scene - Props

With the props we can see that most of the props used are bright and intriguing. With this we can talk about the fact that with all these props such as the plants, the pink blanket and the pink box next to Katy Perry. Looking at all these props we can say that with this cover Katy Perry is trying to attract her audiences by using bright colourful objects which her target audiences can relate to.  

conclusion

After looking at this front cover of Katy Perry's album we now know that Katy Perry has gone for a feminine approach to the album cover. We know this by the colours of pink and red which are shown across the front of the album, the costume , props of the flowers and the font all suggest that Katy Perry is trying to target her target audience for this album cover which is female teenagers.