Friday, 26 March 2010

Completed CD Product

I have cropped the CD front and back covers to CD box size like the inside page. My finished CD product is posted below:


Front Cover


Back Cover



Inside Page




I have also created a spine for the CD also using Adobe Photoshop CS3:




From looking at some of my own CD's, I found that spines generally just have these pieces of information printed on them; the band name, single or album title, the record company and year of release and finally the record label. I used the same font as I used on the back cover for the track listing and other information.

I am very happy with this product overall. My aim was to make each page link together so that the product would look professional and effective. I think that the product would work very well if it was actually printed out and made, however I do not have the skill to do this, nor do I have the time to try.

I think that the black and white colour scheme works very well and gives the product continuity. It also links it to the advertisement and to some extent the video too, in which black and white are very dominant colours despite the video itself being in colour.

I decided to use location shots for the front and back cover rather than an image including the performer because when I looked at U2's No Line On The Horizon front cover I thought it was effective and I thought my images looked effective too and would hopefully intrigue the audience into buying the CD. I decided to use the photo of myself, the performer, for the inside page because it is a good thing to see the performer somewhere on a CD product because this is what the fan wants to see.



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