CD Cover Analysis (Wiley - Playtime Is Over)

Conventions of a CD front cover are an image, which attracts the eye, name of the artist and album.

The logo here shows his artist name and the name of the album “Playtime is Over”. The logo is designed to almost look like a typical label found on a CD case usually with the price on them.

 The artist “Wiley” is shown on the front cover. This may be to show whom the artist possibly for reasons such as the public not knowing the artist by name but by face. Therefore they may gain some interest in the CD from the cover.

The toys in the frame are all fully black and have no colour and this relates to the album title Playtime is Over, meaning that all the childlike objects such as these toys are dead to the artist now. This sign of toys and childlike things being dead to the artist reflects in the dull, black, dead looking objects.

The artist Wiley is wearing a very urban style outfit, which could reflect his background growing up in urban area such is London, the place in which he was born and raised in.

Conventions of a CD back cover are to list the tracks, usually they are found along the left side of the cover but on this cover they are on the right side. Also the cover is to show the record label and the year the song was produced which are both shown at the bottom.

The track list has been written with chalk on a small black board. The black board is similar to what you would find outside a café or small restaurant. The effect of this makes out as if the tracks are camouflaged within the urban scenery. This could possibly mean the tracks are focused on urban life, which would be common in the Grime genre.

Most objects within the frame are black or grey therefore being quite dark. These points also reflect the album name Playtime is Over as this photo is taken in a playground. Therefore everything appears to be dull and almost dead looking, which gives the viewer the idea that these childlike objects, places such as the playground are no longer part of him.

The record label name and logo are also both on the back cover of the CD. It is also written on the blackboard in the picture.