Album cover draft

I have designed this cover In photoshop by cropping a picture i took of the band in a carpark. I added a white effect and big white writing of the bands name, I have used this effect because it gives them a sort of glow which creates an aeura towards the image of the band.

possible unedited photos for the album cover

I could use this image as it shows the main singer while he is on stage with the band, this picture adds sex appeal as it shows the main singer in in his element, as if its just him and the microphone, with nothing else around him.

possible unedited photo's for the album cover

Reasons i would use this image would be because of the gritty city life feel you get when you look at it, the darker colors at the bottom show the dark place they started in there musical career and it gets lighter as you get higher, as if to say there bigger and better than ever before, looking over the scene they used to be a part of and are now part of a bigger and better, more promising future ahead of them.

possible unedited photo for the album cover

I have chosen this image to use as my album cover because the angle of the shot is a mid angle shot which shows the band walking through a car park which looks stereo-typically British surroundings, with cobbled paths and brick lay'd buildings in the back, all this falls into the indie rock genre.

Artists which have inspired me for my album cover

This is two images from the band "The Strokes", i find these inspirational because in my music video I have gone with the common theme of my band being the main image, with close ups of the artists faces and mid angle shots of the whole band together, using these images i have created a music video which fits with the common criteria of an indie rock genre. With black and white images of bands wearing jeans and different dark colored shirts i have used a very common factor of the Indie rock genre.

Other bands such as "The Libertines" and "The Killers" also use this factor in album covers.

Representation of British youth

Find another text that represents British youth in the same way 'This Is England', 'White Girl' and 'About A Girl' do- in a short paragraph explain the links.

Skins is a program about a bunch of British youth who are a close group of friends and end up in different situations which involve classic stereotypical views of the British youth, including alcohol and drug usage. Like the previous texts we saw in class, these kids have to deal with there problems without the help of adults or parents at all, there is a relationship between the parents and the kids in skins, but it makes the adults come across as distant and not knowing what there kids are going through. Just like the young and impressionable child "Shaun" in "this is England" these kids are just trying to find some where they belong, just as "Shaun" tries out new things like kissing girls and drinking beer, these kids also go to extremes to fit in and to be different, just as in "white girl" "Leah" changed her religion because she feels it will somehow change her life, this fits in with the program skins because all the kids there want to make a difference in there lives, one thing they hold in common is wanting to be individual but also to have freedom and be given responsibilities, but you can tell how much they need adult presence once they get in troubled situations. Skins's controversial storylines have explored issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness, adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death, Dysfunctional families have popped up in two of the texts we looked at in class, in "white girl" you could see a lower class dysfunctional family that do not get on, and in "this is England" it shows another lower class dysfunctional family which has to deal with the death of there father/husband, all of these texts have dealt with the issues of dysfunctional family's and seem to ask the question that misguided youth may just come from family life and not necessarily the youth in general who is misguided and controversial.