We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt (Single Cover) and Album Cover

The album and single cover of the We Are Scientists have surprisingly almost no connection amongst them besides their features that represent the "Indie/Rock" genre. As Indie music is typically an alternative and quite quirky style of music, the band have represented this by putting random and quite quirky cartoons/pictures as the majority of both their covers. Whilst the band are redundant in their appearance, the album cover is implicit in the way it suggests the three "headless" men could be the members of the band. Looking introvertly, a connection could be made between the two covers through the way they hold slightly feminine aspects about them. Looking at the mise-en-scene for example, the single cover is totally black apart from one clearly female hand holding a cigarette. And on the album cover, the three men are holding up kittens, a typically female type of animal. By doing this, the band are contrasting against their typically male music types and drawing further more upon the general male genre of their band and music, making the overall genre of these covers either neutral or male dominated. On the single cover, the entire background is black, except for the title and the small picture. By doing this, the band are attracting their target audience by drawing the only attention to the small picture (added for further quirkiness). Because of the lack of mise-en-scene apparent in the single cover, the band have the liberty to make their title smaller with the added chance of the audience becoming more drawn to the smaller writer due to it being one of the only things apparent on the single cover.Because there is not much mise-en-scene, the band have placed the title in the middle, thus drawing more attention. In contrast to this, the album cover, (to which's mise-en-scene is plenty) has a much larger title because it is needed to dominate over the other preceding mise-en-scene and it is placed underneath the pictures in the aim of making sure it does not become faded amongst the other images. Another difference between both covers is the use of colour, that being the album cover is plentiful in light and intense colours such as light blue, bright pink and red whilst the single cover is dominated entirely in black. Though very different, both provide the feel of "quirkiness" and thus pertain to the chosen genre and target audience - indie, young, usually male. There are no apparent logos, themes or icons throughout both covers, most likely to maintain a feel of quirkiness with random images.