You Me At Six - Underdog (Single cover) and Album cover.

Music by You Me At Six is typically of a punk rock nature and this is reflected unconventionally through the amount of colour, and lack of darkness that is usually associated with punk rock music. Whilst there is a lack of colour designed to be unconventional to the bands genre, the images and mise-en-scene surrounding are projected to imply the theme of love or broken love, a quite conventional theme of punk rock music, and of You Me At Six's single itself "Underdog". Through the colour explosion seen on the Album cover, and the colouring of both covers in general, (that being whites, pinks, reds, blues and random bursts of colours) the audience recognises the many colours as symbolic of emotions (ones that would be associated with the punk rock theme of love/broken love), especially that of the prominent reds and pinks apparent on both covers. Upon this, the image of a rose is apparent on both covers along with these colours, presenting to the bands target audience the furthered idea of romance and broken love. As both the single and album cover are heavily connected, it can be said that the general theme throughout the bands music is that of broken love (often prominent in the bands genre of music). On both covers, there is a white banner that covers the majority of the area on the bands cover with the bands title placed upon it. This is used to make sure the bands name (coloured black) is appeared prominent and not washed out through the high amount of colours that have appeared on the main bands cover, the album cover. This theme is followed through to the single cover to make the connection between the bands music. The font of both covers' titles differs in terms of font between the bands name, which is a mainly masculine type of font, to the title of the actual album/single which is predominantely feminine, giving the implication that both album and single cover is neutral in gender.Unusual is that of the album/single covers title, to which the writing is small and scrawled, making it harder to read than larger and more clear style fonts. The intentions of this may be so the audience has to look harder, and thus it draws more attention to the covers. Through the picture apparent on the single cover, (which is centred in the middle to draw the most attention to) we can see that the bands music is designed for teenagers (mainly because the image is of a teenage boy) and this is further implied through the colouring and the conventions of punk rock music to which teenagers are its biggest fans.