The 4-panel layout of the album cover challenges conventions through its busy and bold colorful design. Panel 1 features juxtaposed urban graffiti art with natural forms. Panel 2 repeats Kaya's face in different colors and styles. Panel 3 includes photographs of artwork and people other than the band. Panel 4 contains layered images related to religion, graffiti, and Kaya, challenging expectations. The cover primarily features natural unairbrushed photographs of the female band members, challenging representations of women in media.

1. Bricolage within print productions.
Panel 1
The background of the cover art is very
juxtaposing. The urbanised graffiti art that
is used compared with the forest floor and
challenges many conventions of similar
genre cover art that use psycadellic
imagery, which is something I have done.
But I have manipulated the natural forms
of nature to juxtapose with urbanisation
to do this.
The shot of Kaya on the floor is quite indie influenced, with pop/disco
elements to it with the colour contrast between the saturated photo of Kaya
and the brightly coloured highly contrasted balloons. The balloons can also be
intertextually referenced to Foals album cover for ‘Balloons’

2. Panel 2
Panel 2 is a pop art styled panel of Kayas
face, with the repetition of the image in
different colours and styles.
It challenges most conventions of genre,
as it is very busy and full on for a back
panel, and also the colours are very bold
and in your face, therefore the
construction of the layout I believe
challenges conventions, as makes the
imagery more of a focus than the Track
titles.

3. Panel 3
Background layer.
- The background layer is a worms-eye
shot of a roof display of art at the V&A
museum.
- It again features photographical images,
that aren’t of the band
Not only does the layout being busy and
psycadellic challenge conventions of the
genre, but also through the use of using
photographical images of other people and
not the band on cover art also does this.

4. Bricolage within my print productions
(panel four) Panel 4
• BACKGROUND LAYER.
The background layer is of a decorative stained
glass artwork I photographed in the V&A. The
image has strong links to the church of which we
filmed in a little, and due to the connotations of this
being religion, purity, and somewhere to worship, it
is therefore very controversial for the genre and
music video, although poses a strong link to the
idea of ‘control’, as dark religion has the ability to
control.
Repetition photographs of kaya.
The repetition photographs of
Kaya are not only a screenshot
from the video, but are typically
conventional of ‘electronic’ and
‘synthpop’ genre through the
80’s costume and makeup she is
wearing, and the way in which Faded middle layer.
the photos are positioned and There is a very faded middle layer of a graffiti wall, I photographed in an
repeated which show a industrial estate on the outskirts of the city centre. The idea of graphite
‘psycadelic’ look to the panel, connotes rebellion, therefore connoting one of the bands sub-genres and
and conform to genre inspirations of Rock and culture/music. It is also strongly controversial to the
conventions. stained glass window photographed above, and therefore is a reflection of
the controversial genre.

5. WOMEN. REPRESENTATION.
• REPRESENTATION: the representation of the characters
used in the print productions challenges most
representations of females aged 18, as within this the male
would be more dominant, and the fact the cover art is
primarily centred around photographs of the females
challenges this convention, the photo’s aren’t sexualised at
all, which also significantly challenges representation of
women in the media. Linda Popodopolis a theorist studied
this, and the fact that women are photographed as
‘sexualised airbrushed dolls’ something we have completely
challenged and kept away from doing. The photo’s are
natural, with no air-brushing at all, only colour effects put
on to show our style of music and genre.

6. 4 panel layout.
• The four panel layout I have used uses genre
conventions.
• It is similar to that of HADOUKEN and Crystal
Fighters, two bands that have been close in
research for me.
Crystal Fighters cover art, opens out with
the same layout as mine, with barcode and
track lists in the same place, and album art
work throughout.

7. Motif.
• There is a recurring theme throughout the music video of ‘control’ but the motif throughout
would be the recurring images that flash upon ‘THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING’
and use colour flashes. This was a very quick paced in beat montage of shots, and was a
recurring sequence throughout our video. The use of quick different coloured shots, with
similar action in them represents the track as ‘dance’ and fast paced, the colours show the
genre, and as the sequence is compiled of many different colours also links to the idea of
bricolage, and the genre of the band itself, whilst lastly connoting post-modernist 80’s
psycadellic colours and the 60’s.