Album artwork ideas

After analysing the album cover for Bat For Lashes, 'Two Suns' and their extended play, 'Daniel', it is conspicuous that their are interrelationships between songs and their artwork. Having realised this, I have applied this to our own song, 'Love Diamonds', finding images off the internet as an initial influence.

The first image I found was this. This comes from a more abstract perspective, showing the evolution of humans along with their characteristics. Hence, a likewise image could be photographed with our starring female actress in order to show the evolution of the girls addiction, starting from the one off drink to a relationship being formed with both alcohol and drugs. Furthermore, this would establish a relationship with our music video and the album artwork, likewise to that of the extended play, 'Daniel' by Bat For Lashes.

The next image I came across was that of a young girl being tied, and pulled by some rope. I think this would be a good visual description of our young girls addiction. Addiction, promoting words such as; control, weakness and enslavement. This would therefore act as a more subtle approach, visually displaying the consequences of the girls alcohol and drug abuse. Although, this would be effective imagery, I feel trying to photograph something similar may be quite difficult. However, we may take the rope as an active prop in the role of portraying entrapment or jurisdiction.

Here, a doll is seen to be flawed and impaired in a monochromatic colour scheme. A doll could be used as a representation of our young girl, acting as a symbol of a broken society through the consumption of alcohol and drugs. Furthermore, this could depict, the negative changes from our girls childhood through to the present. The monochromatic colour scheme of this, could moreover create channels with our music video, as a black and white filter has been placed onto a number of our shots. Photographing this image I feel would be the most feasible therefore, this may act as a base idea for our album artwork, incorporating elements from other sources to explore the themes present in 'Love Diamonds'

Finally, this image could be used as an interpretation to our song. Having the glass in front of the characters face demonstrates the girl being trapped and corned. Not only this, but this could suggest the character being captured in her own world, this relating to her alcohol and drug addiction which is overwhelming her life. In addition, this could interlink with the key theme of reflections in our music video, an image acting as if the young women is looking at herself. In addition this could be something we could photograph with our main character hence, this may be an idea which we could develop on, possibly incorporating an alcohol bottle or something with likewise connections to our music video.