Other album covers

From the album cover 'beautiful freak' by the band 'eels' we can see that the band are selling the name of their band more than the album itself and more than the image of the band. We can tell this initially because the band's name is in a lot bigger and more colourful font compared to the name of the album, also the cover is very plain, white and simple, there is no image of the band on the cover and more of creepy image of a girls face that has been distorted. From this album cover I can deduce that the band 'Eels' are not similar to our band 'Lazy sharks' and therefore we shall not make our album cover similar to this. Our band has opposite traits when it comes to the music, as our band is targeting teenage girls and they produce pop music. It is obvious that 'Eels' are not targeting teenage girls and the plainness of the cover is the opposite to the striking cover most pop groups have as they are more colourful to attract attention.

One direction's album cover for 'Up all night' is extremely different to 'Eels' cover and a completely different type of band. This album cover represents a classic boy band cover for pop music. The cover is obviously trying to sell the image of the boys and the name of the band, opposed to the name of the album. The fun, colourful and adventurous image of the boys on the front of the album allows teenage girls to get excited over the band themselves and tries to sell the personality of the boys as well as their image. The band are synthetic artists who were formed a reality TV show, they have a huge following of fans. The demographic of their audience is teenage girls. This band is very similar to our band so we will take into consideration what they have chosen to do to sell copies.

This is an album cover for 'Is it me' by 'The Kooks', from the cover we can deduce that the band are not selling their image because although we are able to see their silhouettes we can not actually see their image of faces, we can assume they are an organic band. This colours in the cover are very contrasting to the text which is in bold. The colours are quite dull with black and grey tones, this would not appeal to our main demographic of young girls and would mean the band probably do not produce pop music.