After researching and discovering both formats of cd covers, it is clear to see that they are entopic, niche orienated and portray a range of colour to undermime its particular music genre.
As we can see this first Tokyo Police Club album cover is (although basic and not very interesting) has a varied amount of entropic features which suggest its 'indie' and unique genre style of music. For example the first point which I felt was very unusual and quite entropic, was the use of space figurines/ UFO's, Spaceships and Robots. As this is very uncommon in todays music publishing standards, due to its basic and not very interesting outlook, I believe it relates to the album name 'A Lesson In Crime' due to in the media and particularly films, many 'out of this world' and made up character's such as Robots and Spaceships are traditionally known to be scary, evil, threatening and on the other side of the law, and thus Need a 'Lesson in Crime'. I also believe that as they are surrounded by a deep red colour, suggesting a fire ball or any other dangerous device, this could also suggest the steriotypical view of these variety of characters. I also believe the white background of the album cover could have a sence of significance to its musical genre. When I first viewed the image, I immediately thought it was just a boring and not very productive cover. Eventually after long thought, I put myself into the shoes of a music fan who would be interested in this genre of music and the white and basic background could suggest an amplyfying yet clear, relaxed and the sence of 'nothingness' about life and the media. I also believe that Tokyo Police Club have this personalty about them, and this is shown throughout their music.
The seccond Tokyo Police Club Album cover is also very unusual, yet amplyfying and entropic. The spectacular use of a variety of strange and almost undecided different images such as a carving of wood could also suggest an 'indie' music fan's outlook upon life. The way everything is put together in a very odd, rushed and abnormal fashion could also represent how a teenager's mind works and what they believe is the most important factor in life. It also suggest that the way the cover is represented by glitter thrown all over the cover, apart from the title placed in the middle of the cover could represent the 'party' and niche orinated style of genre. Overall I believe this is quite a difficult album cover to explain and break down.
After comparing both Album Covers, I believe that these are not the kind of style we were hoping to look for. In our digipak design we are currently deciding on either an outdoor location which would most probably be most redundant from a traditional Indie video/Digipak design, or an indoor feature. At the start of this project I wanted to take a variety of pictures of an indoor setting, preferbly an old thatched room cottage or old castle. The main focus of our digipak final outcome would of course have to be very entropic, and I thought of the idea to keep it traditional and 'Vintage British' including retro Great British Drapers, the old 'RAF' symbol/Mod target, old photographs, strange yet entropic photographs, the focus of drugs and old whiskey bottles and also odd figurines such as a Deers Antlers or Animal Carcuses and bones. The idea also came to mind that as our music video is mainly taken place in a tradtional countyside location in England, I also wanted to include a very upper middle class/wealthy outlook upon our digipak cover, but also include some elements of a rebelious and indie feel to it, such as having our band cast wearing tweed jackets, chordes, battered and retro desert/loafers and holding a shotgun etc, but have the indie and fun side to it by wearing a morph suit underneeth. I believe this is a brillant idea and hopefully we will use this in tyhe final making of our digipak design and some elements in our music video.
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