Album cover analysis

I have chosen to analyse 'The back room' by The Editors. As this band is in a similar genre to the band I will be producing a music video for I thought it would be appropriate to do.

The main image used on the album cover is of a hallway in which several arches are prominently featured. Lighting and post production effects are very cleverly used here to create 3 distinct colours which capture the viewers eyes, these being white, grey and black. Grey scaling the image in photo manipulation software such as photo shop would have created this effect. The lighting is coming from the high on the right of the image which creates small shadows against each individual arch making the viewer focus on them.

The text draws its colour from the original image being white. This keeps a consistency between the text and the image but also allows it to stand out with the white being on a black background. The text itself is very simplistic with just the band name and the album name showing. As both texts are centred they draw you to the arch image in the middle again.

On the back of the album the main image is of a window in a wall. Similar to the front image they are exploring lighting effects with the window letting a burst of light through onto the floor. The Same three colours are used - grey, white and black. This helps create a flowing feel between the front and back of the album. Post production effects would have been used again to create the black and white image.

The text again is very simple and draws its colour from the background image being white. It is placed onto the left hand side of the image so that the window and the light coming through it can be seen clearly.

I would class both images on the album as being abstract as they really don't bare any relation to the band or the type of music that they produce. From this we can deduce that this album is aimed at current fans who are already familiar with the band and the type of music that they produce, rather than at trying to introduce new fans to their music.