Designs for CD Digipack

I have come up with two different designs for my CD digipacks they are both basically the same. Except some of the objects are placed in different positions.



This is the first design for my CD digipack. On the back cover, there is track listings down the right hand side and underneath the track listing is the record label's name and next to that is the producers who have made the album, next to the producers I have a bar code and above that I have a photo of the artist. Then at the top of the cover is the artist's name.
On the front cover of my CD cover, I have a image of the artist which takes up most of the cover space, underneath this I have the artist's name and the name of the CD.

On the extra panel, I have three different image's. The image's will be of the artist, this extra panel is going to take the same design as my magazine advertisement.



This is the 2nd design for my CD cover, this design is mainly the same as my first design except from one small change on the back cover.
On the back cover, down the left hand side I have the track listing. At the bottom of the cover, I have the producers and the bar code. Near the top of the cover, I have the artist's name and in the top right hand corner, I have the record label.
The front cover is just the same as on design no.1 there is a image of the artist which again takes up most of the CD cover. Underneath the image is the artist's name and the name of the CD.
The extra panel once again is just the same as design no.1 which will have three different image's, the extra panel will be done in the same design as the magazine advertisement.

Examples of CD Covers

The first CD cover I'm going to be looking at is the Bad Romance CD cover. The cover is the single cover for Bad Romance. (Released October 25th 2009)

The cover is mainly a image of the artist, the artist has a red veil over all of her face and most of her body. The background and the artist's hair are the only things which aren't red. The background is white and the artist's hair is blond, almost white blond. The veil which the artist holds over herself is red, at the bottom of the veil there are ruffles which are a darker red.
The artist name and song title are both in red, but a lighter red. The title doesn't blend into the background of the veil so the audience are able to read the title. The artist name and song title are written in a bold font and written in capital letters.


The second album cover is the Fame Monster album cover. (Released November 18th 2009)



The background of the cover is a grey/black colour, the artist takes up most of the CD cover.
The artist's hair is white blond which is a contrast to the background colour. She is wearing a black top and she holds the collar over her face.
The artist's name and album title is written at the bottom of the CD cover in a bold simple white font. The T in Monster is shaped like a cross.

I'm going to be using this CD cover as a base for my own CD cover as I really do like how simple it is.

This is a back cover from Lady GaGa's album The Fame. (Released August 19th 2008)

The background of the album cover is black and in the middle of the cover is a image of the artist holding a microphone, the singer is all in black except her hands as she has white gloves on. She has a lightening bolt painted on her face in black, this is a tribute to her idol David Bowie. The artists name is written in a white simple font. The word Lady is on the left hand side of the image and the word GaGa is on the right hand side of the image. The track listing for the album is written down the left hand side and all the tracks are written in a smaller white font.

Underneath the word GaGa is the names of the producers who made the album. And underneath the word Lady is all the websites for the artists and the record company's website. The record company's name is also under the website, as well as the year the album was produced. The bar code is underneath the producer's name. There are two spines, and on each of them there is the artist's name and the album title.

Ancillary Product No.2

The next subsidiary product on the brief is to make a CD or DVD cover. I'm going to make a CD cover instead of a DVD cover.

To create the CD cover I'm going to look at existing CD covers to find out which conventions are used, I'm going to see which conventions I can use when creating my own CD cover. I'll look at Lady GaGa existing CD covers as she is the artist I am using as the main influence in my coursework. I'm going to be doing a textual analysis on each CD cover, to once again get some idea of the conventions are used, how the image is used and what colour schemes are used.

By doing a textual analysis, I'll have some idea of what conventions to put on my own CD cover.

The conventions of a CD cover are;
a front CD cover which will include a image, a main title which will have the artist's name and the title of the CD.
a spine which will include the artist's name and the title of the CD.
a back cover which will include a image, the artist's name, track listing, the producers name, a website for the artist and a logo for the website.
another spine which will include the artist's name and the title of the CD.
a extra panel which usually has the producer's name and image's of the artist.
inside panels which usually include image's of the artist or screenshots from the video.

Edited Image's

I edited these image's on Adobe Photo Shop CS3. I used the Lasso tool to cut the image away from the background as I wanted to get rid of all the objects in the background and also change the background colour. I then selected the whole background and cut the image out from the background. Some of the old background was still around the image, so to get a tidier finish around the image I used the Background Magic Eraser. I then used the Brush Tool to paint the background grey on two of the images', and I used a cream colour on my other image. On one of my image's with a grey background, I used a lighter grey and on the other image with the grey background, I used a darker grey background. On all my image's, I used the saturation tool. I didn't completely change the image's into black and white (which is what the saturation tool does). I didn't completely change the image's into black and white as they will blend into the background to much. Instead I just changed the colour of the image's a little bit by using the saturation tool bar, I just moved the arrow until I was happy with the colour of my image's.

Unedited Image's

Design for Advertisement No.2

I have made a rough copy of what my advertisement is going to look like. I made this copy on Microsoft Publisher, I have done this to give me some idea of what my advert will look like. I have used the same colour scheme that I am planning to use on the final copy of my advert and I have also set out the advert in the same way as I will set out my final copy of the advert.


This is the rough copy of my advert made on Publisher;




I have used a black and red colour scheme again for this advert as I think that both colours work well together. Obviously this is just a rough copy of what I want my advertisement to look like, when I make the final copy I will take the time to measure each area and make sure that all the squares in the grid are all the same size and width.














I have also changed the colour scheme on the bottom area of my advert, just to see which one will work better.
In my opinion I think that this one looks better, as I think the first advert looked a bit to dark and doesn't work as better as this one does.

I have decided that this is my final design, as I prefer it to the other adverts I have played around with.

Design's for Advertisement

I'm going to come up with a few designs for my own advertisement just to get some idea of what my advertisement would actually look like before I create it.

I have come up with two different designs. The first design is this one;

This is a more simple design, at the top of the page there is the main title. The background colour in this area will be black and the font red. Underneath the main title will be the strap line, the background colour will be red and the font black. Taking up most of the page will be the main image which will either be a screenshot from the music video or a image of the artist. Underneath the main image will be another strap line which will have the release date of the video, again the background will be black and the font red just like the main title area of the advert.
This advert has the conventions which an audience would expect to see on a actual advert, it's just a simpler design.
The colour scheme which I would use on this advert would be black and red as my video features the same colour scheme. That way both my video and advert follow the same scheme and the audience will be able to tell that the advert is promoting the music video.




The second design is this one;


I prefer this design to the first design I came up with as I think it promotes the video better. I have grid which will hold 16 different images and I was going to use two screen shots in the grid.

This design has a main title which gives the name of the music video and the artist starring in the video. On my plan of this advert, I have used a black font for the word 'starring' but I have since changed my mind and decided to use a white font for this word. The background colour is going to be black and the track name and artist will be written in red font. The strap line which takes up a small corner and reads 'Official Music Video', the background will be red and the writing in a black font.
Underneath the main title is the main image which will consist of 16 different images from the video and some of the artist. I'm not sure if I'm going to use 16 different image's or use the same four photographs, just in a different order. I will create both adverts, one with 16 different images and one with the same four images to see which one works better.
Underneath the main image is another strap line, which will feature a lyric from the track 'GaGa Oh La La'. Again the background will be black and the writing in a red font.
I'm going to be using a red and black colour scheme for this advert, as my video features the colours red and black.
I have decided to use this as my advertisement as I think the layout of the advert works better than the first design. And in my opinion looks a lot better than the first design.