Genre – The Script are an Irish alternative group who play in arenas across the UK, Ireland and the US. They have influences of soul in their music and is quite lamented in some of their song. The album cover and Digipak for this album reflects their soul influence with them looking reflective on the covers and on the album, has two hands together, showing the alternative side, trying to get an important message across.
Star Image – On the Digipak it has the three members of the band Daniel O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power. This may be to enhance their image as usually in their music videos you only see the lead singer (O’Donoghue) and then the band in the ‘live performance’ shots. This shows them all together which is the message that they are trying to get across with the album, titled Science and Faith.
Visual Narrative – The album cover front and back shows two hands together and could be trying to portray a very important message. It raises the contentious issue of Science and Religion clashing, but they are trying to say that there are something’s you can’t explain so the two must be able to work together in some way, which is what the two hands signify and why the album has a very apt title.
Colours and Palette – The colours used on both the album cover and the Digipak are both reasonably simplistic. The Digipak is a photo of the band in a location, which has dark lighting and can suggest a reflective feel to the album. The album cover has a bland sort of grey/ green sort of colour with black writing standing out. It then has the picture of the hands on top of this. This could be to suggest that they don’t want to do anything massively flash but just want to get their message across through the album that they have created.
Typography – The font on both the Digipak and the Album cover show the bands logo and is put in a colour that will stand out on their respective background. On the Digipak, the lighting is quite dark so the logo is in white to stand out against this, showing their story to an extent. The fact that their band came out of the poorer areas of Ireland in the 90s and is now a band that can get messages out there. On the album cover the font is in black so that it stands out, reflecting what the band is doing now, getting a message out from their songs and standing out from the crowd of musicians who are singing to make money and not a lot else.
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