Ancillary Task - Album Cover

These are some of the images we used as inspiration, but also to get an idea of the conventions of album covers within the 'indie' genre. We noticed that a lot of the album covers use dark colours contrasting with a few primary colours. We liked this idea because we felt it fitted in with the magazine cover as well as the video itself. Often the focus was also on having a quite artistic image, rather than a something which would commercially attractive, such as that you might see on the cover of a Girls Aloud or Sugababes album.






We also wanted to bring in the theme of The Black Lights, which is why the Kings of Leon album cover was particularly interesting to look at as it used the image of a smashed lightbulb. We thought this would represent the broken life of the character in the video, as well as being a visually pleasing image to look at.



We turned this image negative and put the Black Lights name at the top in order to get an clearer idea of what we could do for our own cover. We really liked this idea as we felt it reflected the recklessness of the rock&roll lifestyle we were continually trying to portray.

The Final Product