Friday 20 December 2013

Album covers of the music videos I have textually analysed that are of the Indie Rock genre.



The single cover for Arctic Monkeys - 'Why'd you only call me when you're high?' is very simple and only consists of a plain black background, with the white outline of a phone, and the track name. This simple style is carried across from the cover for the album the track is featured on: 'AM' and has become a symbolic style that the Arctic Monkeys have adopted, showing continuity. It is simple, yet effective as it is bold, yet subtle, artistic, abstract and easily recognisable. The image of the telephone combines with the title of the song itself, so is not completely meaningless and random.




The single cover for Bastille - 'Overjoyed' follows Bastille's signature faded abstract art style on all of their EP's, which includes an artistic, yet simple main image, and a conventional font for the band which intertwines, with the inclusion of a triangle in replacement of a letter, as this is the bands logo. This art and font style contains the track as well as the bands name, and is expected of Bastille as the same art style is featured on every non-album release they produce. The bands name is featured within the center of the cover as they are the main element and the producers of the media product. The main image of the girl dressed in white overlooking the lake connotes innocence, but the fact that we cannot see her face adds an element of mystery. This exact scene is featured within the video for the media product, which shows continuity through media texts.


The single cover for the track Bastille - 'Pompeii' is consistent of the bands art style with a yet again intertwining text of the track and band name, with the inclusion of the standard triangle instead of the letter 'A', which is recognisable as the bands logo. There is a main image of an American wasteland and a sunset, which is very abstract and has no real meaning, but looks fantastic. This is due to the fact that it breaks the conventions of indie rock and is different, but simple. The location is featured within the video which yet again shows continuity through media products. The bands name is positioned in the bottom middle of the cover in larger text than the track name. This asserts the bands importance and dominance over other elements on the cover.

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