Friday, 1 October 2010

Analysis of Plain White T's Album Cover

  • The black and white colouring of this album cover is a contrast to most album covers, as they are usually bright and colourful in order to stand out more. I think that this shows the band are more about their music, rather than producing an outlandish album cover.
  • The image of the band is in the focus more than the title of the album - the band are easily recognisable by their looks. Also, by having the band on the front, their female audience are more likely to buy it because the guys look good.
  • The front man is placed in front of the other band members and is facing straight ahead, while the others are more facing in towards each other. His stance, and having no other band members standing in front of him portrays him as being more authoritative - the more dominant male of the group.
  • Someone seeing this for the first time is likely to know who the front man of the band is, and the hierarchy of the band.
  • How the band are standing and interacting with each other and also what they are wearing gives a slight insight to the music that they perform.

I really like this album cover as it is very minimal and simplistic. Even though it doesn't look as thought it's had a lot of work on it, the album cover is still eye-catching. I also like that the whole band is used on the cover, not just the front me. This is something I would like to do on our album cover.

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