Isabel Denney-Foster's A2 Media Coursework

The chrome-like writing which is used on these CDs is the style I would like to be noted that I was hoping to convey through my digipak layout. Unfortunately there was no way i could have shown this during the design process on Photoshop. 

These are templates I could use as inspiration- I have decided i do not want to include the title of my album or my artist's name like these albums (besides Eminem). I can use a layout and input material as inspiration for my legal writing to include in my product. I still (as I have in my draft) want to include the timings in my track listing just as Space Trax has for their track listings. I do like the use of the dividing live for the Arctic Monkeys album- I may give this a go. 

EBI TARGETS- I need more text on the spine of my CD. Such as the record label, catalog number, album title and artist name. The back cover must have track listing, record label, legal wording and barcode. All my panels need to abide by the rules of third, I need to apply the rule of thirds to each panel. My margin alignment must be consistent. CD art must be included and and CD Tray art must be included. No more than three fonts on entire CD packaging : legal font must be clear- look at inspiration for what needs to be included in legal writing. Consider inclusions of web addresses Avoid album name and any other panel other than the cover and the spice

 Here I experimented to try and mimic the style of one artist who has inspired me. I used photo shop and layered photos I had taken of my artist to achieve this effect. I also edited the brightness and the opacity of the images. I had discovered this when I was visiting the site Consequence of Sound. I have decided I would like to try and attempt this again so I am going to take some more photos and try this affect again. 

I have tried to correspond my draft cover to my inspiration Marisa Nadler's cover for Strangers. I have done this by including the borders and the artist information. I have differed from the inspiration through applying two borders and a bar code. The use of the black and white is a pure coincidence as I had planned to use black an white before but I believe that the borders could only work with a black an white colour scheme, in my opinion, for my artist. 

Whilst searching through Jeff Jank's CD cover site I came across some interesting photography which had been collage together to an imperfect image. I believe I would like to try this method of taking images of a wide area and collage them together to create some form of image. 

The first three album covers are from Witt Lowry who, like Lucidious and our attempt to achieve with our artist Distinct, is rather unknown and not amazingly popular within the hip hop genre like Eminem (the last album cover belongs to).  Lowry's albums are landscape shots which are beautiful and incredibly simplistic. Eminem's album cover is a picture of him in an everyday setting, thus conveying this idea of simplicity once more. i have decided I may experiment with this idea however I know I would like to have my artist featured on the cover like Eminem's / unlike Lowry's. 

Styles like this I believe would be too extreme , not only to accomplish, but for my artist. As we are aiming for him to be a new, niche and not extremely mainstream artist in our genre I fear it would be too much to design and release a cover along the lines of these because they would not fit with the video, the concept and the style. These albums stereo typically look as though they are for songs which are about the good rapping, music artist lifestyle and therefore entail things about drugs, money and sex where as the thought behind our song is very heartfelt and sensitive whereas this image would not convey this feeling or emotion. 

These album covers are not in the genre of rap which is the genre our song Moment of Silence falls under however these are covers which have giving me inspiration as they are simple yet effective. I like the idea of putting a boundary with my font between the photo and the text (as seen is Marissa Nadler Strangers and Blond by Frank Ocean.) I believe I will incorporate this with an effective font (as seen in Banks The Altar   and Genesis). The colour (as seen in WarPaint) is something I may include if i choose to print by CD cover in Black and White which is the advice we were given from our peers as we have used our artist photo as the black and white image.  

Consequence of Sound- I viewed this site and explored all the categories such as film, TV and Music and viewed some of the latest articles on the Music category. I discovered a new article concerning the group METZ which involved the release of their new single and this image.  This image really sparked my curiosity with the visual aspect as it looks like the relay and layering of a multiple amount of images. which were taken at the same time, place and with the same people only having the subjects move, not enough so that the image is unreadable but enough to convey a sense of artistic convention. I have decided I would like to experiment with this effect and if it works well I wish to apply it to my album/ CD cover.