CD cover production ideas

I have print-screened our process of creating our first ideas for our Front cover of our CD Digipack. We have used one of the pictures from our second stage of filming, and used photo-shop to enhance the image, adding a green filter and a subdued tint. We chose one of the fonts from dafont.com that we liked the most, and manipulated the text on photoshop by using the 'magic wand' tool to get rid of the background so the text was transparent over the picture, and changed the colour of the font to white. We are going to test a lot of the pictures we took from our filming but we also plan to take a photo-shoot in the studio against a white backdrop, to create a professional look. As we don't like the angle the photo was taken from as we feel it's unflattering to the model and we also don't like the large gap between the text.

This printscreen shows, I have started to test the layer style, by manipulating the contours, blending options and shadows, I feel this is going to start creating a proffesional appeal, by adding 3dimensional effects.

 

This is our second CD cover idea, we have chosen this picture as we feel it posesses an atmospheric quality with the sunlight on the water and trees in the background, and the bright glow from the models skin and hair. We have cropped this photo from its original size to fit the dimensions of the square cover. I have added another layer to insert the text, however for this one we have changed the font and kept the colour black, however we feel the black doesn't stand out against the trees and we will need to change it to a brighter colour to entice the audience.

Test Font for CD Digipack

 

 

We have started choosing possible fonts for our CD Digipack, and have used www.dafont.com to pick some. We want a thin width and a quirky style font in order to portray our country/pop theme. We have looked at some of these fonts above and decided we do not want a thick font because it looks to bulky for our genre, a bulky font would suit a R&B genre.

Fonts Research for CD Digipack

 

We are researching CD Cover fonts, for different genres of music to get the right idea of fonts to use. We have looked at R&B fonts which tend to be large, often in capital letters, bulky, and with sharp 3d edges. We do not like this appeal and feel it isn't suitable for our country pop genre as we want a thin, delicate/quirky font.

 

 

Katy Perry is a pop music artist, and I have noticed the trend for Pop music covers is curly font, bright lettering/ colours that fit the artist's music. We like the bright colours and the thin font, however we want less of a curly font and more unique to a typical girly font. The covers tend to give a basic idea about what music to expect, but they mainly reflect the artist's personality. The most effective covers have a main image which fills the whole cover with a simplistic font overlaying the image.

 

 

 

Nina Nesbitt is a country/pop artist, and the style of her music covers with a patterned background and simplistic, thin font is the type of cover we want to make ours like. We want plain colours and catchy font but an effective image, to really sell our product and artist.

 

Conventions for CD Digipack

 

1st Final Video

First UnEdited Video + First Edited Video

Unedited

At this stage, we had uploaded a few of our clips onto the programme, and only removed the original volume. We hadn't cropped the clips to keep the best part of them, or cut out the shaking from the camera.




Edited

This video is our first part of edited filming put together with music. We have chosen specific clips with the best quality and steadiness, and cropped them to cut out parts where our model isn't singing or has dropped from character. We have also slow- motioned some of our clips to create a sense of atmosphere. At this stage, our music doesnt fit in time with our clips as we needed more filming to vary our scenes.

Filming Stage 3

On the weekend just gone, we completed our last stage of filming. After reflecting on our other stages of filming we knew that our aim for this video was to film our model singing the chorus with the lip syncing in perfect time. After getting feedback from a group of people in our target audience we knew we had to change our video around so that we had performance during the chorus and narrative through the rest, as our audience expected to see a change when the music changed but with the order of our video at the moment they don't. During our next editing phase, we are going to change our order around and show a clear change between narrative and performance.

 

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