Album Spine

Here is an image of the spine of the album CD. This will be placed on the side of the album in order for customers in local stores to be able to see that the album is made by TWEEDA (since there is no texts on the actual front cover that would signify the artists name). We kept the exact same font which is featured on the posters for the album in order to maintain consistency. Moreover the serial number (featured in the digi pack also) is featured on the spine as this is how it would appear in stores across the country. The design from the front cover also features on the spine, this is done to again maintain consistency as well as aesthetic merit.

Final Album Back Cover

Here is the final back cover for our album "TWEEDA". It is virtually exactly the same as the last image of the back cover I posted, however minor adjustments have been made on the text for aesthetic reasoning. Namely the word "of" on the track "The Future of Mr Earl" has changed from having a capital "o" to now a low standing "o". This was done purely because it simply looked more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

Final Video

http://vimeo.com/59677130 - Here is a link to the final cut of our video project for All The Small Things

Justification of Album Names

On the back of our album we have created various names for different songs which would be available to the customer. The track list is currently listed as:

1. All The Small Things
2. A Tsunami is For Life
3. Antagonism doesn't give a S**t
4. Smile Like You Mean It (Cover)
5. The Other Side of Spiritiualism
6. Day of Lust
7. Realism has Got You By The Balls
8. You Stole my Lazer
9. Fist Full of Predictions
10. The Future of Mr. Earl
11. Psychedelic Pug

These track listings are completely made up through our imagination. Aside from All The Small Things and Smile Like You Mean It none of the track listings are actual songs. We made up the names in order to make the album more unique which would link towards the fact that it is an actual album and not simply an album full of cover songs. The names we chose for the songs are actually scarcely linked towards the names of other songs other songs by real musicians. Even though Infant Sorrow is a fictional band they have still released an album for the soundtrack to the film Get Him To The Greek. In this, the band is made in order to paradoy the conventions of typical modern pop and rock songs by using lyrics which are very foolish in order to be comedic. One of these songs happens to be called Gang of Lust which is clearly similar to Day of Lust (listed above). Although it is made in order to be 'over the top' and silly it is still a song released by what can be classed as an alternative rock band and the fact that it is trying to stay true to what modern rock songs are like except the lyrics and structure of the song itself is very silly. Moreover the singer known as Frank Turner has numerous songs which have names that could link towards the names like Antagonism Doesn't Give A S**t" and The Other Side of Spiritualism such as the song We Were Once Anarchists which has numerous examples of swearing and being provacative towards political or social ideology. More surreal names for songs such as Psychedelic Pug and The Future of Mr. Earl are influenced by songs such as Jigsaw Falling Into Place by Radiohead or Five Colours in Her Hair by McFly since the names of these do not primarily fit in terms of typical song titles.

Justifying no Text on The Album Cover

With our album cover we decided that it would be best suited if we chose to not have any text on the front cover. The reason for this is because I feel as though it helps keep the artistic value of the image and having text covering the album may restrict the artistic merit of the image we have created. Moreover it is not a direct convention of alternative rock music however examples of albums which do not have any text printed on the front cover can clearly be seen. One of the most famous examples would be Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon. In this album cover there is no text whatsoever, instead the image of a prism along with a rainbow type feature coming out of it is just seen. This keeps the artistic merit of the image which is the same concept we are attempting to have within our album cover. By having this example we can justify that alternative rock can sometimes put artistic merit over what is potentially more marketable by having text.

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.

Poster Text

Tweeda


Here is the text we decided to implement within our posters for Tweeda. This text is overall very bold and colourful. We decided to use this for the poster of our album. There is no font on our album cover since we feel that the band would take artistic license and not feature the name of the band in order to appeal more artistic. This font is known as Bauhaus 93 and at the current stage is unlikely to change (since we feel our posters have been finalized). There is still a possibility that this font can change however currently it seems very unlikely. The colour is something we thought about intently. Pink is a colour which is typically associated with girls. Due to alternative rock bands like McFly it seems very appropriate to link to a target audience of girls in someway. This does not mean that our band would purely be devoted to girls since our album cover, video and album poster do not directly link towards girls at all, however we felt that we should try to include some typical conventions of teenage girl interests in order to indicate that we have induced thought to the colour of our text. Moreover this text can simply appeal to boys as well. Since the album cover is very colourful and stylized it makes perfect sense to have text which would follow suit, the fact that it is pink can appear irrelevant to some people when taking into context the fact that the album and album poster include a mass array of different colours.