CD Cover- Finished

Me and Harrison have both finished our album cover for the ancillary task. Overall i'm very pleased with the outcome and feel that we have completed this task successfully. I also feel that we have met the audience needs and also used similar conventions by using elements that were previously seen in our A2 music video.

Along with the finished front and back cover we have decided to use for the inside cover a shot of both Harrison and Nick but when formed together they make a complete picture. We though that this was a smart abstract to our ancillary task and is something that is rarely done. This associates with our unorthodox theme.

in terms of the spine we decided to keep it simple and just include the song title along the spine. This is so that it kept the album cover plain and simple and would attract audience attention as the song name is displayed and the audience would know who the artist is just by looking t the spine. We also decided to use the purple colour as we wanted to keep it consistent throughout the music video and also ancillary task.

Front Cover

Back Cover

Inside Right

Inside Left

Spine

CD Cover - Back Cover Final

Harrison and I have finally finished our front and back cover for our album cover. We used a consistent theme throughout the ancillary task which is using the white back ground black characters and purple text. We wanted to keep the colours simple and make the colour stand out so that the audience can see the relationship between the music video and album cover.

We decided the idea of the back cover when starting to plan about our ancillary task we kept this idea throughout and managed to keep to the same idea. Overall i'm very pleased with the out come of the front and back cover of our ancillary task i believe that we have met our target audience needs and also used similar conventions to our genre. 

Back Cover Final

CD Cover - Final Decision

Me and Harrison have both decided that we are going to change the layout of our CD cover as from our audience research people have been commenting saying that it may be too confusing as the text will be split out into different sections and may be hard for the audience to read. We decided that we would change this and include just a simple picture of Harrison and Nick and include text that is laid out in an unorthodox style this would mean that we followed the convention of our song and managed to meet the audience needs. We also wanted to relate our CD cover back to our music video we used the studio background on the CD cover similarly to our music video where we used the studio to record our performance.

We also wanted to use the symbolic colours of our music video which is purple as harrison is seen wearing that colour throughout the music video. We incorporated this into our ancillary task and used purple font.

Final Fron Cover

CD Cover - Update

Album Cover So Far

CD Cover - Audience Needs

Throughout the whole process of planning and designing our album cover we were considering the whole time about how we are going to meet the audience needs. I research some other examples of album covers and see what people thought about them. Our initial idea of the four segments was our first idea and we were putting a lot of planning and attention into this plan. We firstly looked at many other album covers with four segments i asked some of my friend what they thought about this idea and they thought that it would fit the unorthodox theme and would suit the title of our song. Although many other people said that it would look confusing and maybe put the audience of the product.

After this I decided that I would should people our initial idea and what they thought about it we showed some sketches of what we hoped to achieve and we asked them what they thought we could improve about it. 

Sketch of final idea 

From the audience feedback that we got the vast majority of people said that it was a good idea and would express the unorthodox theme. Also it would be eye catching and would appeal to the audience. Also fans of the hip-hop genre would know that this product is from the artists because it has the artist on top of the cover and also it has other elements from the music video such as the purple text which we incorporated from the music video.

CD Cover - Ideas

Me and Harrison have began contructing ideas on what our CD cover and poster should look like, we came up with the concept of having similar colours to what we used in our music video which is purple. We though that the intergration between music video and our digipak would be a good idea of getting the audience to recognise our product imeddiently just by using a single colour.

CD Cover - We agreed that we wanted to follow our unorthodox tradition and have the CD cover different to others, firstly me and Harrison gathered some examples of CD covers and began critisising them to see what was usual to see in them. we then wanted to start focusing on what the aestheics were going to be for our digipak, we had already come up with the idea of only having one colour inluded in our CD cover and we were sure that we wanted it to be purple because we included this colour within our music video. But we were unsure on how much colour we should include as we didn't want the CD cover to be dominated by just colour. We then began to look at examples of album covers that include one colour.

Here is an exmaple of an Album Cover that uses one colour.

This exmaple inspired us into choosing where the colour should be included on our digipak. We finalised our decision and decided to have the text of the CD cover in purple and the images in black and white.

CD Cover - Research

Eminems Album Cover

The Dark Knight Movie Poster

When researching different CD covers I need to make sure that i find one that relates to my audience the most. This CD cover is a great example of one that does. The picture is very dark and mysterious and is seen as a more dystopian pleasure. The text looks like it is trying to scare the reader and make them feel uncomfortable. The reason why i have chosen to analyse this CD cover is because it has a significant vertical intertextual reference to the film 'The Dark Knight'. In my opinion i really like this CD cover the reason why i like it so much is because Eminem's songs usually involve felling’s of people (mainly himself) and how the world hates him. I wish to use this same type of CD cover to express the artist's feelings, however in a much more positive way. I also wish to use an intertextual reference similar to this one. Also I really like the choice of colour in this CD cover the reason because it is dominated by the colour back and only includes three colours in total which are black, white and red. Using the black and white makes the red stand out and makes it more significant  compared to the other text.

Another exmaple of a CD cover would be Examples 'Playing in the Shadows' Compared to the other CD cover theya re very simluar in the way that they represent he artist. Each example is dominted by the colours black and white connoting a mysterious life and that the audience doesn't know the whole side of him.
The use of simplistic colours creates a sense of mystery. As well as this, the black and white image symbolises the album name 'shadows' a Example is half enclosed in a shadow on the cover. The album cover appeals to the target audience which is example fans and hip-hop/rap fans as it shows an image of the well-known artists and everyone knows what sort of music he does.

As my partners mum is a professional photographer it means that we are able to create a professional looking piece of work. Me and my partner have already planned what we wan't to have our cover to look like. We would like to use my partners mums studio to take some photographs of the two singers. We would like to have a plain back ground and then edit the photogragh to add some intertextual reference or even cover up some of their identity similar to the two covers that i have analysed