Researching Conventions of Album Covers

There are many different conventions of album covers. There are many different aspects that go into making an album cover successful. We have been looking at different punk inspired covers, to help inspire us with our own ideas, this which would be suitable for our pop-punk genre.

This is an album cover from the punk-reggae band Skindred. I found this album particularly intresting as it has lots of different things going on within the product. The colours work well together as they are bright and have a 'fun' sense to them. Here these colours are known to be used as rebellious colours. For example, the colour red would normally represent anarchy and danger. Yellow is normally shown as happy, or in this case hazardous. And the green symbolizes nature. The band are stood in an intimidating way, this is to help get their band image across. The name of the band is written in a graffiti style font. This is also to show rebellious attitudes amongst the public. Whilst on the other side, the album name is written in a slightly more 'easy to read' writing, as if it was almost hand written.

The background is a blurred sky, which gives moody properties, and in the foreground placement of the band against the speakers, in front of the background gives a feel of a collage to the cover. The band is almost places within a higher-achy of who is most important within the band.

Another great punk album cover is by Rancid.

This album cover showa 'anarchy' colours. Red and Black represent danger here, The white helps contrast against the darker colours. The fact that the song title is 'let the dominoes fall'. And the main colours of the album cover are black and white help link in with the white and black dots of the dominoes. We can clearly see that one of the band members have tattoos. This deffinitly links in with the punk genre of the music that we are researching. The style of the writing of the band name is in a graffiti style. This shows the rebelious impressions of the music. i think the album gives the impression that it was intentionally made to look like the whole image had been spray painted on by a graffiti artist.