Famous Album Covers

Famous Album Covers

Iron Maiden - The Number of the beast. Throughout the years they have been active Iron Maiden have maintained their own high standards when it comes to their album covers. The eye-catching red font that reads Iron Maiden has always stayed the same and been located right at the top of the album cover. This consistence has maintained their image and success along with the quality of their music that has been at the highest level for decades.
This Album cover is particularly eye-catching because there is so much going on but it appears so simple at the same time. Which is why it is so effective.

NWA - Straight outta Compton. This is the first album by American rap group NWA from 1988. This album was the first big step for gangster rap. This is another simple yet effective album cover because it contains all the members of the group on in looking down towards the camera on the ground. It is very similar to the Iron Maiden album cover with the famous red font at the top of the cover.

A2 Preliminary Task

This is the short preliminary task I completed as an introduction into making music videos.
My song choice was 'That's not me' by Skepta

Music video regulation

The BBFC is the organisation dedicated to the contr4ol of music video regulation and their content, which can include things like the representation of religion as well as sexual content and violence. Age restrictions can be applied to videos which contains content the BBFC deem to be unsuitable for younger audiences. Recent events and various music videos have led the government to pay more attention to music videos. This has led to the BBFC looking into sexualisation in music videos especially in areas surrounding children. This government interest has resulted in the video recordings act that should restrict how easily available children can view explicit content. Despite increased government activity into regulating music videos there is still a lot of explicit content available on the internet for anyone to see who has access because it is still very difficult to regulate content on the internet. However people can report things that they believe to be unsuitable.

'Prison sex' by American rock band Tool is an example of a music video which had to be regulated. The music video itself was viewed to be very successful by critics as the video was nominated for MTV's best special effects category. Despite the video not containing any violence or nudity it was banned for how the video tapped into human emotion which was labelled as disturbing content.