The document discusses the design process for the front cover of a music magazine and CD. It describes how the band photo was edited and composed to make the lead singer look dominant. Text was made simple and bold to emphasize the band. Early ideas were to reuse the CD cover for the magazine, but feedback suggested adding typical magazine elements like social media links. So the back cover photo was used instead to avoid overlap, while keeping similar colors for continuity across products.
2. As a group we decided to take a picture
of a canvas and then Photoshop the image
of the band members on it.
3. We decided to use a low angle shot
of the band members because this
would make them look dominant and
powerful. We put Jordan in the
middle in order to emphasise that he
is the leader singer and therefore we
also made him look into the camera.
We placed the band against a wall
because we wanted the background
to portray a natural look.
We made the colours of their clothing
look brighter by increasing the levels
of lighting. The reason why we did
this is because we wanted them to
stand out. Also it would tie in with
the other colour schemes on the
cover. In addition, we lightened up
the area around their face as in the
original picture it was quiet dark and
we were not able to see their
expression.
4. We made the typography look simple in order to put more
emphasise on the band members and therefore we also made the
background dark so that the image on the canvas would stand out.
We chose to write the bands name and album name in big bold
white letters with using a shadow effect behind it.
5. Our first idea was to use the same
image of the front cover for the music
magazine because it would be easier
for audiences to recognise the image if
they want to buy to buy the album. We
wanted to use floating quotes in order
to show that audiences that the CD is
worth buying because it has been rated
by well known music companies and
given 5stars.
However, we decided to change the magazine layout slightly because
when asking opinions from audience they told us that the magazine
does not really look like a music music magazine advert. They also
suggested that we should add typical magazine advert connotations i.e
website of the band, face book and twitter links, record label etc. On the
final cover, we decided to use the same image that is on the back cover
of the CD because we wanted to upload the image of the front cover so
therefore if we used the same image for the magazine it would have
overlapped too much. We tried to keep the same colour scheme
throughout in order to show the continuity between our products (fron
cover, back cover and inlays). We also toke our audience feedback
serious and applied typical magazine advert conventions ie we placed
their facebook and twitter links as audiences
might want to find more information about them.
