I believe that both my CD Cover and Poster turned out the way I wanted them to and were the most successful out of all the project I have done for this unit; they both have that rock genre look I was after to reflect my band and also they both stand out and catch the attention of the target audience I was aiming them at (16-24 years). I believe that this was achieved through the contrast of black on white and white on black, it made them both more bold and out-there, also the text font I used helped to make them eye-catching, it wasn’t simple it was bold and had texture to it which matched the genre of music I believe.
I created Mood Boards to gather up research of previous CD Covers and Posters to help me influence my own work. I got my research for my Mood Boards off Google Images. I also got some of my influences for my CD Covers from a book called ‘The Greatest Album Covers of All Time’ by Barry Miles, Grant Scott and Johnny Morgan. For my fonts I got them from a website called ‘Dafont.com’ where my particular font was listed ‘Fancy>Old School>Night Stalker’. My hand drawn drafts where of the images I was going to use for my final pieces which I got from Google Images – I drew them from the computer to paper.
With my CD Covers I had difficulties with changing the colour of some pieces of my work; with my back cover I struggled to make the parts of the volume dials blue because I wanted them to look like they were naturally blue and not placed on. I also, on the back cover, had difficulties with making the number texts stand out; they looked like they blended in too much but I didn’t want to enlarge them, so I made them have a blue glow around the edges to make them stand out more. With my Poster I had no real difficulties as it was quite a simple and basic piece to do.
I enjoyed doing both the CD Cover and the Poster as I was able to reflect my personal taste and my own ideas into my work. I mostly enjoyed the editing of both pieces as I am quite used to Photoshop and know how to do the basics and achieve what I want to achieve, but also through this process of creating a CD Cover and Poster I learnt new methods, tools and skills which will help me with future projects – for example the ‘Background Eraser’ tool, how to invert, how to adjust the shadows and highlights and the ‘Colour Replacement’ tool.
What I would change about my CD cover is make it a bit more realistic, meaning I would add some small print where the barcode and logo is, also I would have taken my own photos if I could do this again as I believe it would have looked better and I could have done more to them. What I would change about my Poster is to also perhaps used my own photos, but also I would perhaps add more information and it looks a little bland – but I do believe my Poster works well despite as others I looked at didn’t contain much information on them. Furthermore, I would perhaps do different ideas so I could use different software, such as InDesign and ImageReady, and get use to different methods, tools and skills. And also I’d get to use different file formats, such as INDD and GIF – as so far all I have used in Photoshop is PSD and JPEG.
