Tuesday 4 November 2014

WB - Digipak Analysis



Royal Blood are part of the rock genre, thus they present themselves to be quite edgy and grungy. This is represented on the album cover from the grungy overtone it holds.

The colour scheme on the album cover is black and white, a very minimalistic style quite stereotypical of the rock genre, and the noise rock sub-genre more specifically. The black and white typeface is also very edgy typical of the horror genre. The use of a white background is an example of synergy within

The Victorian style image is typical of their band and could represent there isolation from the rest of society as they often present themselves to be regressive in the way they step back in history. This could be reinforced in that the character in shot, only shows his/her hands and eyes.

Dyer's theory of creating a star image is enforced with Royal Blood. They present themselves to be youthful, rebellious, and have a disregard for social norms and values. This is represented throughout many of their videos, lyrics, and digipak's.

As Royal Blood are a rock band, there music is unlikely to be consumed on a global scale. Instead it is more likely to be consumed by a selective audience.

On the front of the album cover the only text shown is 'Royal Blood', the name of the band, so apart from 'royal' possibly linking to the Victorian theme, there is no other real analysis liking to the name of the band. Nevertheless, on the back of the album cover, although once again having a very simplistic design the names of the songs give us a very good idea of the style of the band. The grungy rock theme is enhanced with song names such as 'Blood Hands', 'Ten Tonne Skeleton', 'Little Monster', 'Careless', and 'Out Of The Black'. The name of the songs connote anger, frustration, and generally negative dark themes.

1 comment:

  1. Will, as you haven't spent much time on this, it would be much more useful to the group to analyse a different cover and therefore have another input into production.

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