CD Digipack - Back Cover

I wanted to make the back cover of the music video personal for the audience as it is a concept that would influence me to purchase a CD. The photobooth style images represent the artists character and also the person that she is trying to represent to her audience, mainly bubbly and silly  which will connect to a younger audience of teenagers and girls.

Final Music Video Issues

Our music video is fully edited, but we will look through it once more to see if we can add or change anything if we aren't happy with it anymore. Unfortunately, the video wouldn't upload to YouTube yet and we have tried to save it in other places to upload it, but it hasn't worked, so in the new year, we hope to have it uploaded and edited fully.

Process of Editing the Back Cover

This is a screenshot of the process of creating the back cover of the CD. Currently I used Apple iPhoto to edit and crop the photos into black and white, then I used picmonkey to make a collage. I am now in the process of adding the song list. However I a not happy with the white border that surrounds the black and white collage therefore I think I will remove it and then begin adding the song list.

CD Front Cover

This is one of my final edits of the front cover for the CD. I took a picture of Lauren and edited it on the software: picmonkey.com. I have isolated the image by colouring it in black and white and then have coloured the background in a dark pastel pink. I then used the font Geo Sans Light for both artist's name and the title of the album. I have made two copies where the second you can see the colour on her lips. I think I prefer the full black and white one, as the colour looks odd in not contrasting with the pink background. I really like the way I have used the contrasting colours because it makes both colours and image stand out, making it eye catching to the audience.

Front Cover CD First Draft

This is a first draft version of what I am thinking the front of the CD will look like. I have used Picmonkey.com as the photo editor. We have thought of the light pastel pink theme to be used throughout of the CD, so I have used that as a background colour. I really liked the contrast of the black and white colour for her facial features; however I think that the black and white needs to be a lot stronger in colour. I used Lauren's name as the artist and have flipped her name background to show some originality and have then added the title of the CD album in italics, using the same font throughout. I think this definitely needs some work done to it, but we are liking where the design is taking us.

Audience Feedback

This is out audience feedback for our draft music video.
There's relatively good reviews. Most of the improvement comments include shortening certain clips.

Magazine Advert Ideas

In our advert we are going to use the key conventions:

• title of album and artist.
• release date. 
• photo of artist.
• record label. 
• reviews (stars). 

For our magazine advert promoting our CD album, we will choose three main concepts and a positive message for the audience.

Our three main concepts are:

• fun - youthful outlook to target a specific audience. 
• love - this is a common relatable topic to be linked with the music. 
• power - the song has a strong message of girl power and we think that this is a vital concept we need to pursue. 

For the use of colours we will use: 

• vibrant colours - we need the page to stand out to attract as many people as possible, whether that is our target audience or not. 
• aesthetically pleasing colours - we want our viewers from our audience to be attracted to the colours of the album. This would be the first clear way of showing our creativeness in the music. 
• a girly colour palette - colours that link with the music and the artist herself.