Album Back Cover

Within the back of our album we decided that it would far easier to conform to the iconography of the alternative rock genre by taking example from other back covers of alternative rock albums. Due to the diversity of alternative rock covers it is very difficult to identify a specific characteristic which appears in all of the covers. However it is clear that a specific characteristic of the covers is that they always reflect or have a clear reflection in someway of the same image shown on the front cover. In terms of our album cover we have a very abstract shape which cannot directly be reflected in the same way an actual image can be such as in Definitely Maybe. In this the same setting used in the front of the cover is used on the back however the people who are in the image have changed position, namely one person who in the front cover is sitting on the left side playing a guitar on a couch whilst in the back cover he has changed to standing up on the right side. This would make room on the left side so that text can be implemented to identify the track listings. Similarly in The Killers Day and Age album it appears that the same artistic 'look' of the front cover is reflected on the back cover but with subtle changes such as having an image which seems to represent a moon in the front cover which then disappears when looked at the back cover. Other than this there are virtually no changes.

This meant that we needed to keep the same artistic 'look' of the front cover on the back cover. We decided that, like Definitely Maybe, we needed to keep the same image but subvert it slightly in order to make it different from the front cover and to make room to list the different tracks which would be available in the album. Subsequently we took the image we used on the front cover, changed the colour of it slightly and then decreased the size and placed it in the top corner of the album. This gave us room to list the different tracks. We used exactly the same front and colour to list the tracks from what we used to write "Tweeda" on the poster in order to maintain consistency. Legally we could say from an array of back covers that there would have to be various logos and statements which would make the album legally secure. This meant that we needed to implement a studio as well as the fact that it was a compact disc, a bar code and a legal statement stating it's copyright infringements.

Within our back cover we also thought it would be a good idea to stay 'hip' and include a QR code which can be scanned by anyone with a phone. When scanned using an iPhone application or otherwise then it will appear with the words "Tweeda say buy this album". This is not directly linked towards a specific cover in particular from our research however we did feel as though it is a little something extra which would help with appealing to a younger audience and it may in fact be a piece of technology which will start to appear in more album covers in the future as a way of being more 'hip' and modern with the use of new technology. To prove that the QR code does in fact say "Tweeda say buy this album" I have taken a print screen with my phone using the application called QRReader which I made me use the camera on my phone to read the code shown on the back of the album and the result is clearly shown.