Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws
Flaws is the second album from Bombay Bicycle Club released 9th May 2009.
The album artwork is overall quite simplistic as it features only an extreme close up of a woman with no other mise en scene which is done to focus the audience on the photo of the woman. The woman portrayed to be depressed as her head is tilted and her eyes are looking down. This could relate to the music on the album as the songs could be relating to the sorrow / depression of women. This is supported further with the post-production of the photograph.
The colour grading has made the picture dark on the lows of the colour and light on the highs of the colour which expresses the lighting on the right side of the photo. With the use of this technique it connotes that there is two sides of the woman in some way. For instance a happy and sad emotion or certain ideas relating to songs on the album. The colour scheme is a de-saturated red which represents a faded or little passion, which may relate to the songs on the album.
The album artwork is overall quite simplistic as it features only an extreme close up of a woman with no other mise en scene which is done to focus the audience on the photo of the woman. The woman portrayed to be depressed as her head is tilted and her eyes are looking down. This could relate to the music on the album as the songs could be relating to the sorrow / depression of women. This is supported further with the post-production of the photograph.
The colour grading has made the picture dark on the lows of the colour and light on the highs of the colour which expresses the lighting on the right side of the photo. With the use of this technique it connotes that there is two sides of the woman in some way. For instance a happy and sad emotion or certain ideas relating to songs on the album. The colour scheme is a de-saturated red which represents a faded or little passion, which may relate to the songs on the album.The banner to left is quite unusual as it is placed vertical on the album cover and is read top to bottom. This therefore is the second item on the cover that the audience looks at because they have to change their eye line from the default horizontal look which is the composition of the photograph of the woman. Therefore this denotes that the photograph is more important than the title of the band and name of the album. This is supported further with the white thin font on the black background which is contrasting and creates a simplistic feel and does not draw the audiences attention very well.
Good start again. Is there more you can say about the very small band name and ablum title? Why is it like this?
ReplyDeleteCould you also find the track listing or other artwork from this album? This woudl give you more understanding