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...

Final Digipak

Here is my final digipak. I decided to change the inside cover picture slightly because it looked like it needed something on the left side of the image to make it complete. I chose to use the peach colour because it goes with the image the best, after experimenting with different colours. It's also the same colour that has been used for the text on the album cover and CD so makes the whole digipak link. I really like my digipak.. I think the album cover and back of the cd is the most effective but think overall the whole thing looks professional and effective. I think I used appropriate images and colours to link with the genre of the music and also to link with the artists representation. I think the text really flows on the digipak.. I have used the same text on the front cover that says the artists name - then on the actual CD which says the album name. I also used the same text saying the album name on the cover to display to name of the songs included on the album, on the back of the digipak. 

variations of inside cover

I felt that there was negative space in the image on the inside cover. I've decided to add a strip of colour to the left so that the image looks more complete and not empty when displayed as a digipak. I have decided to use the peach strip of colour for my final inside image because the colour is more softer and goes with the colour of her skin tone, whereas the other colours are quite dominant and bold. Although I really liked the red as it went with the rose in her hair and her lips I thought that the peach colour linked more wit the digipak as a whole. 

Draft Digipack

I looked at more CD covers when I had my photo's to see how I could develop it. I think this digipack is really effective and I think that it fits with me genre, links with my video and would attract my target audience.. I used the same/similar text I used in my music video in the 'Vogue scenes' I wanted my CD cover to look like a magazine cover so it linked with the Vogue intertextual reference... but I didnt think this was effective. I like where the artists name is placed and also the album name which I got the idea off of Cheryl Coles album - Three Words where she has the album name as a tattoo on her shoulder, Also Rihanna's album - Talk That Talk is 'tattooed' on the side of her arm.