Album Cover Ideas - Sarah Butler

Initial Album cover Ideas:

Our first idea for the name of the album is Bridge Street, which we've decided upon since it has a metaphorical significance for the character's transition from an irritating trouble maker to someone more mature and tolerable, a theme for the entire album which "Let's Stay Together" introduces. It also shows that the two life stages are connected and in the music video the character speaks in reference to past mistakes. Using the image of a road represents the lead singer's life as a journey, that he's taken a certain pathway.

Another reason why we chose this is that the Roosters played at Guild-fest, thus photograph is of a recognizable road in Guildford so it can show the band's journey to recognition/ possibly their biggest gig. On the left of the image is a shop that sells records for rock bands, which fits well within our genre.

Idea for the back cover:

This is our main idea for the back cover, we chose an image of a concert, a very conventional cover for a rock band as it attempts to present their success and dedicated fans, with the chaotic nature expected of such concerts. This helps to confirm the genre for the audience as the cover can be easily misinterpreted, thus the traditional back cover for our genre is used.

New idea for the back cover:

An alternative idea to our back cover, though very similar to the previous idea, the silhouettes are less messy and allow for an area to add required information due to the pitch black. Additionally, the lights help to reaffirm the genre.

Overall, this cover does not achieve the appropriate balance of simplicity and new ideas to draw in new people, though representative of the album's story and achieving the look of the urban environment and the everyday, it does not grab the attention of a passing audience. Furthermore, the actual band is not present on the cover, even more imperative as this is an unknown band, and their image could better reaffirm the genre. For our final cover idea, though we may keep the general look of this cover, we have to find a way to include the band in the cover and reduce the clutter and disorganization caused by the traffic in this idea, which would make the band look more simple as we planned earlier after analysis of AC/DC and Green Day's covers.