Evaluation.

Poster Final

This is my final digipak. I have developed it from my draft by adding the picture of my album cover. This is so audiences know what they are looking for when they go to the store to find it. I also added the logo's of the music production companies at the bottom next to the websites to make it look more professional and more like a real poster. I thought the white title really worked well against the black background. So instead of changing it, I improved it by adding a red shadow to make it stand out even more. I think this makes the poster look more effective than just the plain writing. The red shadow also links with the main image - because of the colour of her lips. I think its important for the text to link with the main image because it makes the poster look real. 

Poster Draft

This is the draft on my music advert. I created this on Photoshop CS3. Using text I have downloaded from dafont.com for the artists name, album release date and 'available on'. This was simple and easy to put in, move about and resize to the correct size that was needed to make the poster look professional. I used google images to find logo's of stores that would 'sell' the CD. I pasted these logo's in and deleted the white background so it looked better visually. You can see these logo's very clearly which is important because this is where the audience would see where they can actually purchase this product. I then displayed the artists website which is also very important as it promotes the artist. Audiences can look up this website and find out more about the artist and artists album (if they don't already know). I really like the text used because it's the same as the text used on the digipak. I think that this is an important link because audiences can relate both ancillary texts together easily. I have put the artists name bigger than the rest of the text because I feel that this would grab peoples attention first. the second biggest is the date of release because this is the next important.

Inspirational Cover

This is where I got the idea of having the album name tattooed across the artists hand. Cheryl Cole is a popular artist who has the same target group as mine... I think Her album cover is very elegant even with the tattoo (as tattoo's may not come across as girly) I thought that if I used text like hers mine would also look effective.

Inspirational Cover

This is the album cover that inspired my album cover photo. I like the way she has her hands and nails in the photo, this is unusual as other artists haven't done this. I thought this was a good opportunity to link my video with the cover photo by the nail changing colour scene I did in the music video - therefore I edited her nails to different colours on Photoshop when making the cover. I also like the way this image is framed and wanted my cover to be similar.

What the album would look like on an iPod...

I put my CD cover onto an iPod to see what it would look like if someone was listening to it. I think that it looks really professional and possibly like a real one. I think this is an effective way to see how your target audience will see your cover if they bought it on iTunes ect...

My CD

I used Photoshop to make my cd. I used a lot of layers to create the cd. I also overlaid a image of a shiny surface to make the cd look real. It gives an idea to the audience what it would actually look like...