CD Album Cover (Digipack) Analysis: The Script - #3

Front Cover

The front cover is very unique and grabs your interest straight away with its entropic look. The main singer has a side view of his face with the other band members inside his head which looks really cool. This challenges the conventions of this genre as this genre tends to just have a long shot of the band but this band have decided to conjoin them all into one head. The band have managed to reinforce the star image in a different layout which would appeal to their target audience as its unusual which the band would normally have on their album cover which connotes maybe a different style within their songs in this album. This links in with Andrew Goodwin's theory of the demands of the record label, a close up of the band is used on the front cover which is unique.

Their house style of the name of the band is used on the front cover as used on all their other albums so their target audience will recognize its them. Their font size is very distinctive and with it having a very different style than just having a block style texts which many albums use.

The colour scheme is very simple with just black and white. Because the background is white behind it, it makes the main band look very visible with the vivid contrast. The band title and album name is also the same colour and placed either side so its easily seen and separated apart. To fill the empty white spaces they have also added stickers like including the 'Hall Of Fame' soundtrack which will appeal to their target audience as it was a number one hit which will be included into their album.

Inside

The left side of the inside carries on with the colour scheme. They have decided to have a long shot of the band taken at low angle which makes reinforces the star image. The star image is also reinforced as hes standing directly at the audience where the other band members are standing on their side which shows the leadership. Its a very simple design but very effective.

The right side of the inside is again a shot of the band, however its an extreme long shot. They are keeping their colour scheme consistent. Their posture is very conventional of this genre which will appeal to their target audience. Also their clothing is very casual which will appeal to their target audience.

Back Cover

The back cover style links in with their front cover. However the groups faces have changed around, so the main singer is now staring directly at the audience which splits up the outline of the head which was on the front cover. This could connote to the emotions of their album songs which their songs based along a honest tale of break up that channels melancholy, anger, despair, false hope and then, finally, admittance.

The track list has a very small font size and is placed in the top right corner. Even though its small its very visible as they placed it in a different colour than the main white background which makes it stand out a lot but doesn't ruin the bands main image which is the focus. The bands website is placed in the bottom right corner along with the bar code and the music label it was distributed by which will appeal to their target audience as they can find out extra information, this follows the conventions of CD albums.