CD cover design

The design:

Explanation:

When thinking of how we could make the CD cover not only a successful one but an effective one we had many different ideas within the group which we have combined into the image above. The front cover will be of the artist's face as this is a very popular convention within our genre of Disco Pop and then we chose to specifically have a brick wall as the background to enforce the urban feel of the song and also the style of the artist. By having the brick wall it also represents the frustration that is built up and constructed within the music video and song which isn't initially seen on the front of the CD cover. The album song title is bold and will stand out against the background as this is another convention seen within the genre; the font will be a sketchy type font as it will convey the frustration and determination which is part of our overall concept. On the back of the CD cover will feature three individual photo's of the artist that will be made into one overall photo. The center one will be the artist spinning around and the other two will be still representing the freedom of the artist as well as the lyrics of the song. The location of this picture will also be featured within the music video, cleverly linking the two and enforcing the sense of tranquillity and freedom.

The spine will be yellow with the text 'Not Giving In' and the artists name to represent a crime tape with is associated with police, violence and crime; this will link to parts of the music video such as the interrogation room. We thought of using the idea of a clock where the CD would be placed as it is a circular shape and will draw the audiences eye to it, instead on having just a plain background. We also wanted to use the clock within reference to the video (seen in the interrogation room) and to represent the waiting and passing of time that it takes to not give in to a situation.

Another idea for the front cover:

 

Despite this design going against the conventions of a typical disco pop CD cover we thought it would be visually interesting to the audience but the idea behind it is to convey the idea of how much emotion is seen throughout the video and also our overall concept is centred around the emotions of different people we chose to use this specific image as it is said that "the eye is the window to the soul" connotating that by looking into someones eye you can see how they are truly feeling. In addition to this we thought that by turning up the contrast of the image it would make the iris stand out which would make it brighter; linking in with the convention of bright colours. As well as this we said we could replace the iris with an image of a field which is seen within the video or combing two locations together to create a juxtaposition between the two, therefore juxtaposing the emotions felt.