CD ideas - Emily

When designing and creating ideas for a CD cover, researching simular genre artists are key. I looked at an Oasis cover and got some ideas of how the cover of the band we are producing a video for (Little Grim) could look like. The simple layout of text and the image taking up 2 thirds of the cover is very eye catching because everything is very easy to look at. The colours work together with the image being black and white, and all of the text apart from the album name; making it all stand out and catch the audience's eyes when it is placed next to many other CD's on a shelf in a store.

This particular cover of The Vaccines album 'Coming of Age' really caught my attention because of how simple it is. The layout of everything is very structured and centered in towards the middle of the cover. The black and white image makes the vibrant red stand out and both things work well together and really contrast each other. Even though the name of the album is not on the cover, the image seems to tell that story by the body language, attitude of facial expressions, clothes etc. the story being the idea of 'coming of age'. This idea could work well witht he band that we are working with and the title of the song.

     The cover of this album Foo Fighters 'Wasting Light' caught my eye straight away and thought that something like this would well very well with everything that we are planning for the video for Little Grim. The idea that is being planned has a big connection to this cover due to some parts that could be used within the video. I do also think that the cover is very striking and eye catching because of the black background contrasting with the bold, vibrant colours, therefore making everything stand out and catch the eye of the audience.The cover of the album and also when it comes to designing and planning ideas for the magazine advert/poster, without the album being eye catching it will not capture the audience's attention let alone the target audience that we hope would want to be the CD.

When thinking up ideas for the booklet that will go inside the CD I wanted the layout of the page to link with the cover, and song itself. As there is a storyline in the video, there is still a theme that is going on, it has a dark feel to it. The inside of the booklet seemed as if it could carry the story on inside, therefore having these two layouts to chose from would fit in well; a simple layout with an image that would link to the video; dark background, image of a prop, the band etc. any of that would be able to work for the booklet. The layout of the text from the second idea (above, right), I found slightly more interesting and eye catching to look at as has a more unique, original layout compared to a usual booklet, having the text the right way up istead of having to turn the page around to read the text.

The layout of the back of the CD can be very simple, with a dark background just like in the video and also on the CD cover. By having the text laid out in the centre, will allow us to then add smaller text running down the side, inspired by the Coldplay album (above, right) to make it slightly more eye catching. Text will be in a contrasting colour allowing it to stand out, and let the audience read the song title's with no problem.