Further Album Cover Analysis

A Rocket To The Moon (Album cover):

• As we can see from the album cover, it has the bands name on a sort of hill type of lining, and the typography of this title, looks as if it has been wrote by hand onto the album. The albums name 'on your side' is smaller to the bands title, which is quite typical of most album covers, it is quite common for the producer of the CD to use the bands name in a more outstanding and bold style.
• The colours used on this album cover are quite relaxing and mellow. For example the connotations of the colour blue are calm atmosphered and quite relaxed. The colours seem blurred as well as being quite bright, so it could be suggested that it looks as if the scenery is being seen through a window or a clear pain of glass. 
• The windmill in the background suggests a sense of peace to the music which may be seen on this album, from what we can see by the lyrics and music of this band the music is quite calming and peaceful. The bird which we can faintly see in this album cover picture, could be also representative of this peaceful music.
  

A Rocket To The Moon (logo):

The logo of this band, seems quite retro, as if it should be from the 1960s possibly. The reason this could possibly be perceived this way because of the colours which are used. For example they all eventually come together at the bottom of the title. Also the word 'moon' starts to become an underline for the rest of the word, which adds to that 'groovy' type of effect. As well as the title not really having any paticular straight lines in it at all, and it is quite curved it brings a sense of fun to it. The 'groovy' type of feel to this title also adds to a representation of the songs, except these songs are quite modern, with lots of different generic sounds.

A Rocket To The Moon (poster):

The poster features the three members of the band all looking very relaxed towards the camera. The lead singer is in the center with the other two members behind him, suggesting a sense of importance to him, yet this is used in a lot of posters with the band members appearing on the poster, usually the lead singer will be in the center or have the most space given to him/her on the poster. The bands name is in the bottom right corner, the style of this writing looks more of a rap sort of look to it because it has been done in a stone colour with quite hard hitting lettering. The setting of this poster looks as if it has been set next to a block of houses, yet it also looks as if it has been set in the back garden of someones house. This suggests a limited budget possibly because it is not a well known band and does not have very many fancy effects in the videos.

A Rocket To The Moon (Music video):

• It starts with quite a playful tone to the music, and a shot of a frog, speech bubbles come out of the frogs mouth about 2 seconds into the video and first show the bands name, and the song title 'Baby we're invincible'.
• Then we see a shot of a multi-coloured tie and sunglasses and some other objects, these could all represent the upbeat qualities that the song has to give. Shooting to shoes on a floor, underneath a bed.
• We see the lead singer in bed, acting in as a character for the music video which is quite typical, most lead singers do feature as main characters for their own music videos. We see him asleep with a thought bubble of him about to sing.
• The lyrics begin and we can assume that it is coming from a speaker phone on the side of the characters bed because sharp animated symbols pop up over the speaker suggesting that it is digetic sound.
• We see the character stirring out of bed, and switching off the speaker/alarm clock, this then shoots to the band going back to the characters bedroom as he gets out of bed.
• The bedroom has lots of different toys and games, suggesting a sense of playful qualities to this song along with a little bit of innocence. We then see an animated character, possibly an imaginary friend, or some sort of cartoon played out in the characters head, who is starting to stir out of bed also. This could be an idea to use in our media project juxataposing cartoon with reality.
• The character then gets into the shower, the steam is seen to be fake, which is a nice added effect to the video yet it is done quite simply final cut or even just a slight transition, this adds to the merging of the cartoon and reality qualities.
• The 'imaginary cartoon friend' passes a cartoon character, which as the main character of this video, takes it becomes a real towel, this would work well in our preliminary exercise because it would help to test skills we havent used.
• It then flashes to the cartoon and real character sitting on the sofa playing a video game with the cartoon winning, and reality losing in some respects, which also adds to the idea of playfulness in the video.
• The speech bubbles are used again by the friends of the main character who tell him to come with them. It then shoots to a different room, like a basement, and we see the band start to play as the 'climax' of the song comes to the point.
• In the climax of this song we see the lead singer/main character pushing away his imaginary cartoon friend, and we see the cartoon pick up a ball and it immediately turns into an animation. The main character then falls over and gets knocked unconscious with animated stars which then start to come over his head, which is how we assume he has been knocked unconscious.
• He then meets a girl and the cartoon is forgotten about which is possibly a little message at the end saying we forget all the childish things as we grow up into adolescence.