This is the album cover to Blurry Lights album Sounds of Emotion. The genre of this particular album is Ambient Rock/Post Rock, which is along the lines of what we produced. Looking at this cover and many others iv seen, They all seem to have a pattern of a Photograph taken with a different effect of a city or something along those lines. While that is just generalizing, it seems to be the norm for most covers of this particular genre. In a personal opinion, it doesn't come across as overly eye catching, but it has become a norm for the genre characteristic to be that. It kind of plays a way to be more of a marketing ploy for Ambient Rock bands to produce a album cover that relates to the others. As people have become familiar with the type of cover. This then will link to the genre, and it may persuade them to buy it. I feel like this is an idea that we could use. The colour of this cover is dark and bleak.
Colour
Using the dark morning sky and picture of a less than appealing blurry road really relates to the album itself.
Location
The shot is taken over what appears to be a balcony. The shot itself is wide and straight looking into the horizon over the busy highway.
Characters
Whilst a distinct lack of individuals in the shot there are many people in the vehicles below unaware of the photo and the photographer is unaware of the individuals in those vehicles. This shows that in a massive city surrounded by people that the individuals are not known by many this is the reason that they have choose this shot type and it strongly links the to the music that they play.
In conclusion the album cover uses subtle yet effective techniques to give off a good album cover to the consumers.
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