For the album cover of our song we intend to make a simplistic image with the band name and song title also on the front. When researching and looking at album covers I thought that the simlpler examples were more effective, also bands which feature a funny edge to their piece made their album look far more astheticaly pleasing. We are aware that consumers are as much swayed by the asthetics of an bands album as they are by the music. Our target audience of young people, interested in alternative, quirky music will be drawn to an attractive album cover that offers an arty edge to the photo. Examples of covers that we believe are succesful in producing the features I have diuscussed are:
I think these are succesful because they look cool and appeal to our target audience as they are asphetically attractive and look different to the conventional album cover. One of the main conventions of the style of music we are using is a quirky album cover, for example the cover of the album 'antidotes' by the Foals is interesting and different and appeals to their target audience of a more alternative person.
Our target audience of young people, aged between 14 and 25 who enjoy alternative music such as bands I have featured in the blog (the foals, arctic monkey, editors etc). They are less mainstream then fans of more comercial music and stereotypical indie rock bands, for theses reasons they look for more in an album cover than just an image of the band. Covers such as the ones I have shown not only act as a interesting way to promote the album, but they also serve as artwork that a true fan would enjoy and feel they needed to have, almost as a collectable piece. All these aspects of breaking the stereotypical conventions of an album cover support the bands who break the conventions of the music they play, they also act as a way for the audience to prove that they also dont follow the generic conventions of choosing music and are making a point of buying different, quirky style album work and music.
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