Further Album Cover Ideas

Below is shown another potential image roughly drawn for most likely the front of the album cover or image to be used for the poster. The artwork of an LP or album can potentially have a large say in whether the album is a success or not. An album cover can go forth and give the audience a representation of what the music will sound like and whether it will appeal to their individual taste. 

This close up image of Luke is taken so he fills up the majority of the frame, pictured against a sheet white plain wall making him the only and dominant figure in the image. Inspiration has been taken from such albums as 'We sing, we dance, we steal things' by Jason Mraz and most dominantly from the famously recognizable 'Imagine' by John Lennon. These two album covers have such basic ideas but are used effectively in order to create a well known and strong image. Intentions for the front cover of our album was that it was going to be striking yet simplistic, a simplistic album cover can let the audiences imagination run wild and creates a more intriguing viewing, leaving the audience wonder what music lies behind the album image and leaves them wondering what kind of genre it holds and the story (if any) that it tells. 

Album cover for 'Imagine' by John Lennon.

The image itself possibly to be used for the Album Cover has a strong sense of ambiguity, this image gives the audience access to many different interpretations of the album. Unlike certain album covers from Iron Maiden which portray features of heavy rock such as band members seen with guitars surrounded by fire, this image leaves the audience wondering what the album possesses and expresses causing an excitement and eagerness to find out. Jason Mraz's album artwork for 'We sing, we dance, we steal things' also possesses a sense of ambiguity This image of Luke could be related to our chosen track 'Fight Back' in the fact that a strong factor portrayed throughout the track is how innocent, peaceful protesters were over-shadowed by a minority of aggressive and vandal individuals and that the media only managed to capture the bad that was happening at the 2011 London Riots, this image therefore could express how voiceless these peaceful protesters felt as they were constantly being over shadowed by the violent protests. The fact that Luke is shown to be completely alone in this image supports this point and as he is pictured against a blank white wall, this further endorses this point. I decided that Luke should wear glasses in this image as they partly cover his face relating to the minority of violent protesters in 2011 who covered there faces with balaclavas/scarves and hats to hide their true identity. Therefore this image for the album cover arguably represents the two divides of people shown at the London Riots in 2011, the peaceful, voiceless protesters and the violent, aggressive and commonly labelled as 'mindless' protesters. 

Fold//Fight Back Music video Final Cut.

Due to technical difficulties myself and Luke were delayed by a few weeks as the computer we were working on didn't allow us to edit and when it did, did so at a very slow pace. This issue was adressed and fixed by the technicians about a week ago and we were able to get our edit finished.

Initial ideas for Print Production

When thinking about ideas for the print production, myself and Luke decided to roughly sketch out ideas on paper. We based these initial drawings around screenshots taken from our music video, we wanted to capture a screenshot that represented the dominant theme behind the music video such as social inequality and the mindless minority surrounded by mistreatment from the authorities. The main aim of our print production is to express the story told throughout the song and the music video we have constructed and to reinforce events that take place within the music video.

Above is shown a quick rough drawn up idea for the front of our album cover, inspiration is given from a screenshot taken from our music video used on a number of occasions throughout the video, it shows the main actor Luke throwing the St George's over the edge of a large drop located in St James' Hill near Thorpe, Norwich. We thought that this particular image would be a strong representation of our music video as it can suggest that people have lost their hope with their country and our starting to repress the government and authorities shown through the lyrics in 'Fight Back'. The film 'This is England' set in a 1980's nationalist dominated section of England also gave us inspiration for this particular shot. The moment in the film where the main character of Shaun is pictured with the iconic St George's flag throwing it into the sea is where we got our inspiration from. I believe that a flag can represent a number of different things, not only does it represent an individual country but represents in more depth, for example it can represent a togetherness, a love or hope. In this instance in This is England Shaun is throwing away the flag as he has lost hope and compassion for those around him and feels he has been let down by his country and subculture he has joined as he no longer feels content and like he can put his trust behind anything anymore. By using a similar shot to this in our music video we create the sense of hope being lost in England and the state. Similar to our music video for 'Fight Back' the St George's cross is crumpled and not laid out flat as to reveal the full flag therefore implying that peoples sense of reality is perhaps distorted in that the protesters of the London riots thought that their voices were going to clearly heard and action would have been taken against their point directly and quickly whereas the opposite happened in that they were oppressed. In relation to This is England Shaun gets to see what the real world is like when he finally sees a African American individual get beaten up and die to reveal that some people in the world are racist and capable of many bad things.


Image from This is England of Shaun hurling St George's cross into the sea.