Album Covers that I Have Made that Abide by the Indie Conventions

This first album cover is made from a simple image from Google and then added text on a Photo Editing Software.

This album cover abides by the Indie conventions as it simple but effective. The inspiration for this album cover came from the Florence and the Machine album cover Lungs; pictured above. Florence has no eye contact with her audience showing that she is not the main ect of the cover; her lungs are. Therefore I felt that a girls head turned away from us so we only see the back of her head had the same effect and message.

The name of the album "Don't Look Back" reinforces the image of the girls head turned away from us, so that the audience are looking at the back of her. It suggests that she is not turn back to look and face us and not to look back to the past.

The colour temperature of this album cover is very mellow with different shades of grey and black. The lack of bright and "happy" colours can suggest the sad meaning to the album name; to not look back on the bad in the past. It also suggests that all is not well and this song will be of deeper thought and meaning.

The actual font type looks as if the artist herself has hand written the text. This illustrates that the music on this album is all of her own work; as if she is signing it to be hers like a painter would do with their painting.

Indie music is normally about reality and the music being the most important aspect rather than who the artist themselves actually are. This is again shown through the audience not being able to see the actual face of the artist in the album cover; just like who she is is not as important as the music she has made.

This album cover is a bit more vibrant than the album cover above. Again the background image was found on Google and the font on a Photo Editing software.

The inspiration for The People's Pot of Gold  came from Jack Johnson's album cover. The artist himself, Jack Johnson, is not pictured in his album cover and this suggests that the album is about his music not who he is, which is following the typical conventions of Indie music. I have decided to do this also.

The image of a nature scene suggests the down to earth theme of the music that would be within the album. It shows the freshness and purity of nature which gives realism look on the music.

The rainbow colours of the title of the album "Pot of Gold" is based on the idea that there is a Pot of Gold at the end of every rainbow, which is a familiar quote that is well known. The use of this quote will give familiarty to the audience and could imply that this album is the Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow. The fact that the colours of the font seem to be fading, reinforces what a rainbow would look like in real life as rainbows don't have bold colours. 

This album cover is a lot more sinister than the others and was made by an image from Google that has been edited to have a negative colour scheme. The font was then added through a Photo Editing Software.

The inspiration for this album cover was from Coldplay's Viva la Vida album cover.

Again like the John Johnson album cover, the artists are not pictured. However, an iconic image is used in Coldplay's Viva la Vida album cover. The painting called Libery Leading the People or La Liberté guidant le peuple painted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, July 1830, was to commemorate the July Revolution that had just brought Louis-Philippe to the French throne and was used instead. This painting has a deeper, important meaning, therfore I decided to use the same idea. The image that I have used symbolises the Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil saying but instead of the usual monkies that are normally used, I found one with skeletons in it. I felt that this was a more suitable image because it could suggest the darkness of the music within the album.

The font on the Coldplay album is written like it has been painted or graffittied on top of the painting. The font that I have chosen is like it has been written in splattered blood. Again, I feel that this adds to the horror and sinister atmosphere of the album cover, which is a convention of Indie music that is slowly swaying to the Rock genre.

The name of the artists themself are not featured on the album cover of Coldplay's album and I have decided to do this too. The main reason for this is because of the typical convention of Indie music not being or selling because of the artist but because of the music and what it's deeper meaning is about.