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Once I read the Got Milk ads, I tried to think about other successful advertising campaigns. Although it is hard to relate these promotional videos to our current project, they do make a strong point. In this advertisement, 7 up is clearly attempting to target the younger crowd. They introduce a young and upcoming actor/comedian to pretty much insult the general public.

Before this project I rarely paid close attention to album art. From the CD's I have purchased over the years, none of the covers were as creative in my mind as Radiohead's. Before learning more about what makes a great album cover I always regarded Radiohead's album covers to be the best. I choose to analyze Kid A over there other albums because I feel that the music is depicted perfectly through its cover.

I found Patrick Duffy's advice for designing an album cover very realistic. After reading through his guidelines I came to realize that he is almost telling people how NOT to screw up. It reminded me of improvising on a musical instrument. You want to play a scale that fits the chord progression, but that does not mean other notes would not work. So once I thought of this I tried to find some examples of album covers that we looked at in class on Wednesday to see if they followed his guidelines.