Album Cover Research

Even though our main piece of coursework is the music video, the digipack aspect of it is just as important. The digipack includes my website, which is fully finished and an album cover which I have yet to have started, so today during lesson time I researched some previous indie album covers.

Pictured above is what appears when you type 'indie album covers' into google. It is clear that there are 2 common themes - Sketches and Animals, meaning that unlike other genres such as POP it is not common at all to see the actual indie artist face on the front of an album cover. This could be for many reasons, but the most obvious to me is that the indie genre is known for it's songwriting abilities and using that the sell records, rather than using the pretty face to sell records like the POP genre. I am defiantly going to take that into consideration and not use a band picture on the front as I want my piece of digipack to portray the indie genre perfectly. 

Wolves are also something you can see alot of while scrolling down previous indie album covers, which is strange and can be taken to one extreme or another as they are a symbol of both good and evil. This may be a popular animal to use because maybe the albums which use it have been going through good and bad times while writing the album, or maybe see it as a symbol of hope - If they are going through a bad time then there is always a good side, and the good side is coming. 

I think the idea of using a piece of artwork for my album cover is a idea I like, some of the sketches are so beautiful and although I have never even heard of some of the albums or songs I get the meaning just from the timeless piece of the front of the album. Some of the sketches I have found are off scenery and some are off people, I like the idea of using people on mine and maybe possible band members.