MORE CD COVER INSPIRATIONS

Here I have found some more CD cover inspiration, these are on the modern side of the spectrum. We wanted to look at more modern CD cover as we thought that the previous CD cover we look at were quite old and out of date. These specific template that we decided to look at were similar to our CD cover or how we want our CD cover to look like. I have noticed that with these modern CD cover were more image based with little text which we want our CD to look like as we do not want to bore our target audience we information.
Only fans would purchase a digipack as they would want a hard copy of the product instead of listening to it on iTunes or on spotify. Therefore, it was important for the digipack to interact with the target audienceand make it worth its price.

 We liked this digipack as we thought that the colour scheme used links well with the theme of our music video of friendship and loss.

 We really liked this template as it is very simple as we want our digipack to look like however, it looks was too plain.

Rihanna's 'Loud' digipack one of the main digipack which we find very inspirational as she keeps the colour scheme the same throughout. This is also shown in her poster.

CONVENTIONS OF CD COVER

• Most cd covers we have researched use a simplistic colour scheme and design and we decided that we the colour scheme of our CD cover would be using the same colour scheme as well as being simplistic.

• Most of the CD covers we have researched have few or no characters all. 

• They use a different colour for the band name compared to the rest of the cover, the font for the band name is usually Bold, simple fonts. For the title of the album, the font can be similar or entirely opposite of the band name.

• CD covers usually includes title that explains to the audience what the album will be about .The covers tend to give a vague idea about what music they would be expecting on the album, but generally I think they mainly reflect the artist's personality.

• The back of CD cover usually include the name of the band at the very top and name of the album beneath this. it also include list of song tittles on the centre of the page. 

• CD covers usually have barcode in the bottom right to left of the corner of the page at the back of the CD cover. 

FINAL CUT PRO EDITING PROCESS (2)

QUICKTIME from Bahja on Vimeo.

• This is the process of us using the final cut pro of the beginning scene of our music video. We started the video with the text of the song name to introduce the song and used the city lights to show the audience where the story is taking place- London-waterloo.
• we added an a letterbox, Aspect ration 2:55.1
• we added some effects to make the city look busy and colourful.
• we also added glow to make the city look more appealing

FINAL CD POSTER (2)

We decided that this edit would be our final CD poster as it looks more simplistic and more aesthetically pleasing. We thought that too much texts would ruin the feel as well as the appearance of the poster.

FINAL CD POSTER?

 We decided on changing our final CD poster as we thought that it was too plain and we also added another real music promotional of adding the release date of when our CD album would be out. We also used the paint brush using the colour white to add a texture to picture as we thought the picture looked too plain. However, when we asked our target audience about what they thought of this edit, they believed that looked 'too edited' and 'too music'. So we removed the white off the picture.

 This is the result of removing the white paint brush from the picture. It looks more simplistic and cleaner whereas, when we added the white paint brush, it made the picture look all over the place. In this edit we added the song name of the song of our music video to give our target audience an insight of what songs they would be expecting from us. We also blurred the texts to make it go with the text of the title as well as our music genre.

In this edit, we added a quote from 4music as this music channel which usually plays the same genre as our music. We used this quote as it means that our song will begin to be more popular as they are getting an opinion from people who usually listen to the same genre as them and it is almost like they are getting an expert opinion.

FINAL CD POSTER

This is the final copy of our CD poster. We distorted the groups name as well as Sara as she is the character who changes from good to evil character. We also distorted Sara to emphasise that she has left the world- a memory. We added these textures to make our poster have the same 'feel' as our music video. We have added conventions of real music promotional posters such as the group name. However, our poster is very simplistic as it goes with the theme of our music video.

CD POSTER PHOTOSHOP

• This is the text that that we decided to use for our CD poster from dafont.com. 
• We thought that this font would go really well with our music genre as it is not too simple and also not really over the top. It has a party feel to it which our music genre (dance) is usually associated to.

 I copied this font onto photoshop and used the magic tool to get rid of the white background so that it would be easier to edit and add could colours without affecting the whole text. 

This is the result after using the magic tool.

After using the magic tool, I decided to use the blur tool so that the text can go with the image used in the poster.

This is the result of using the blur tool.

PLAYING AROUND WITH PHOTOSHOP

My Movie from Bahja on Vimeo.


We decided to make some basic poster for the Cd album on photoshop by taking inspiration from the different CD posters we liked. However, we haven't really finished making the poster but this is where we are at right now. 

We were thinking of not adding any texts because it would ruin the image but we decided to add just the group's name and filters. We went around waterloo and took a range of pictures which we didn't plan out. We wanted the shoot to be spontaneous, just to see if we would be inspired by anything we saw outside. We thought that taking pictures of the 2 protagonists in the middle of the road is quite symbolic of them being isolated. 

In this clip you can see how we have played around with photoshop. We used the layer of the bus and copied it onto the opposite side to show parallelity between the characters however, as you can see, it is not exactly identical. We did this to show that their lives are not perfect.