This album cover includes a lot of conventions. The big, capital text reminded me of a newspaper heading like The Independent, and the album name looks similar to a sub heading, because of this I put an overlay of a music newspaper article over the top. The format also looks to be styled from a newspaper article with a title and subheading. I chose to use black and white not only because it fits in with the newspaper theme it's also so the name of the band and album title really stands out and draws your attention into the image. I think this cover needs to be interpreted which is the bands name so it really fits in well. The use of overlays of a few images in these four potential cover edits also achieve this interpreted style we tried to achieve.
The black and white versions of the photo look a lot more effective then the colour versions in my opinion. In both the image still needs to be interpreted a lot as they are all confusing and cause the viewer to think twice about what actually is in the picture. I feel that they all fit in with the indie genre and conventions as they're arty and interesting and very different.
This is a great potential photo for both the front and back cover of an indie album.
The idea of having the album title in the photo is really appealing. It makes the cover look a lot more authentic and also fits in with the indie genre as a few albums I researched into did similar things. The black and white image is bold itself, with the 'advance' the main subject of the photo I added a red film flare effect to draw some attention to the artist within the image.
