This general research is useful as it helps to visualise and understand different designs used throughout this genre by lots of different artists. It’s important because it helps us to decide what we like and we don’t like, and take ideas where relevant. By looking at these album covers we also got a general idea of how the images of men are used on their album covers, we then took from this and came up with some general ideas about how we wanted out male model to appear on our album cover. You can see that the males appear looking quite depressed, looking like they are in really deep thought about something, for example in the 2Pac album cover, they’ve used quite a dark, sinister background with him standing with his hand on his chin like he is thinking about something. This is very different to the image of the female model where she looks very gentle, clutching her body like she feels vulnerable. It is important to note that this was only a general mood board just to help us to start gaining some ideas, however from this general research we noticed that there was a reoccurring theme on the cover of rap albums of men looking depressed often isolated and smoking alone, looking at the camera or to the floor like they were in deep thought.
I am not sure of the context for these images since you have not made any commentary on them at all. Nor have you presented them in such a way that narrates a 'story' or 'argument' for me to read.
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