With album covers within the alternative rock genre, the common theme among them is how the cover shows the band with the lead singer in the front of the image. the rest fo the band members are usually behind the lead singer but still easily reconisable. The reason for this is because the lead singer is the msot easily reconisable to the fans so putting him forefront of the photo would make the band as a whole more recognisable.Looking into exisiting products of the genre, such as Stereophonics album cover and the Razorlight's album cover, it's easy to see that both images are looking out at the audience with the other band members looking out of image or appearing less engaged wiht the audience. This highlights the importance of the lead singer and allows people to understand the roles of the people withing the picture without needing to know who is who.
However, with the majority of alternative rock albums/digipaks its often displayed with an artistic or computer generated image. We have found within OneRepublic's exisiting products that they use a lot of artwork rather than an image of the band and this research showed that this was common for the whole genre. The image on the right is an example of the different kinds of album art within the genre, with many posing no specific relevance the title of the album or the name of the band.
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