Album analysis- Foo Fighters- Wasting light.

This album cover uses a vivid, translucent collage effect in order to draw the eye, the contrast of the plain black background and the bright merging of images has an instant effect.  The contrast of simple design and eye catching complex effect is interesting and is something we could implement in to our own production.

The theme of contrast is continued on to the back cover with distorted colourful shapes adorning the black background. The oddly placed yellow lettering again creates an eye catching effect, it also fits in with the album title, ‘wasting light’ as do the distorted, brightly coloured shapes, we get the idea that these smudges of light and touches of colour are almost intruding on the black and simple album cover, the light is being wasted on the blackness.

The cover for the booklet is a simple band logo but the colour scheme of yellow and black is consistent.  The inside is more colourful than the outside as if the light has spread. We can now make out the band and their instruments, although there is still some distortion and filter, which creates an interesting, striking effect.