FINISHED FINAL CD COVER & POSTER, AWH YEAH :)

Today we have been able to get so much media done, our video is very very close to being complete just a few minor tweeks to be done and we have completely finished our ancillary tasks changing it to Niall etcccc.

CD cover: (front, inside and back)

Front:

Inside:

Back:

We added some more tracks to the back of Joel's cd to make it an album rather than a single because now it doesn't look so empty and it premotes more of Joel as an artist.

Poster:

Our first poster design people really liked as it showed our technology skills and was eye catching, but now with the changes in our video we felt it didn't tie in as well. Also it wasn't at all similar to our CD case so the products didn't seem to be helping each other and working in promotion together, so instead of our first design which was this:

We started pretty much completely again and came up with this:

This poster really links in with the theme of our CD cover and is again really eye catching with the big photo of 'Joel' (Niall) he comes across really happy interesting artist, the information is simple and yet effective. When showing the class again, although they had originally liked our poster before they agreed that this tied in really well and looked proffessional.

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CD cover.

Daisy uploaded the pictures that she took of Niall earlier while i was editing, we wanted to take pictures similar to the ones i'd taken of Joel before cos we had really liked them and then we needed a full length picture looking up that we would use of the back cover.

This is that picture -

He is looking up because i think he will be looking up at the clock in the top corner.

We chose this clock picture:
Because it was the whole clock, then we were able to cut it to the size and shape we wanted to go in the corner or at the side.

And cut it like this to fit in the corner:

This is what our first finished backcover now looks like:

Although it links to the video etc I'm not sure that I really like it, it looks a bit random and for audiences just buying the CD who have heard the track and not seen the video it wouldn't make sense. We also couldn't get the fuzzy edge away from around the clock so it doesn't look perfect.





However we have just tried it with no clock.. and it looks really plain but this is what it is for now.

We have kept the colour theme right the way through and set it out like the front cover as this was what our class feedback advised us to do. We have our company logo "DS09" (Daisy Sadie 09) on it and his name and the track.

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Photo's

At home I took some photo's of the clock that we used in our video so we could pick one to use on the back cover of our CD.

I have taken pictures that aren't the full clock because we want it in the top ledt hand corner really big and a full length shot of Niall smaller in the other corner looking up towards it. People who see the video and the CD will see the connection between the two and should recognise the clock.

I'll save these to the computer at school tomorrow and addd one to the back cover.

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CD cover - JOINT BLOG.

Today we made the inside cover and back cover of our album except we just need to add the photo's that we are taking in last lesson and then they will be done. We also need to change the photos of Joel on the front cover to similar ones of Niall.


This is our inside cover - we kept the same colour theme as this was what our class advised us to do when we did class feedback and showed our front cover. Originally we were just going to have a block of colour but we decided to add a trebel cleff note to make it look more interesting and link to music and instruments.

This is the outline for our back cover, again we have the same colour theme and have used the same style as the front cover. Our original idea was to have a big clock and Joel (niall) in the middle of it but we decided that would have too much focus on the clock so I think we are going to have a part of a clock in the corner then a smaller full photo of Niall in the other bottom corner as if he is looking up to it.

We are taking photos and filming in last lesson and after school today, we have brought in Niall some of Joel's clothes so that we can still have our style that we wanted and have the look that we wanted to achieve.

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ps ignore the white underneath the actual inside and back cover cos we couldn't get rid of it but the inside is just the cream square and the back is up to where the thinner line is at the bottom ha :)

Update Blog for cd cover lesson.

I hadnt posted a seperate blog to Sadie based on our cd covers because we did a joint one instead so as to not repeat ourselves by doing two seperate ones.


I think the repeated image of Joel works really well as it makes the cover less simple and gives it a quirky edge. I'm glad we chose to use a framing effect around the image to make Joel stand out more. We are still deciding on which logo to use.


I am really happy with our final design:

CD cover - Final Draft. JOINT BLOG.

We then decided to make it look a bit more interesting and less simple, even though we still want that simple effect, we decided it looked better with adding the lines and changing the background just behind Joel to give a framing effect.

It now looks like this:
We changed the font to a dark grey with the cream background, we thought it looked more professional and different, simple but more eye catching. Using the lines to frame him made it better to use just the top half of his body instead of how we were going to use a full length shot. We put 'Joel Owen' over the line so it looks like the line goes through the 'L' of Joel, we used a script font to make it look like Joel has signed the cd cover, we thought this would give it a quirky effect.


This should be pretty much our final draft, we will just need feedback from our teachers to see what they think and if there is anything we can improve on.

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Back at school :) JOINT BLOG.

Sadie: I am finally better and back at school so able to get more done with our media.

Today we have been focussing on our CD cover, we uploaded the pictures we had taken and decided to use our favourite image 3 times on instead 3 seperate images. We want our cover to be really simple but look effective.

Our first draft looks like this:


We're not completely happy with this as it is too plain and doesnt look finished but we do really like the image and having it repeated. We also really like the font as we want it to look like a signiture font. We had the trebel cleff on our drawn design in with his name and we really liked it but on the computer we cant get it to look right, if we could get a trebel cleff in the same font it might fit but we can't, so we would like to include it somewhere but just need to find an appropriate place where it looks good.