creating new front cover

Research

Old front cover 

We also had to change our front cover, because the background of our original front cover uses the roses which were from the internet, we liked our layout and felt we had strong research that related to our front cover, so we thought of some ideas in order to change the background. 

Planning

Construction

Using the same image that we used for our CD cover, we placed the image on a square canvas and edited and played around with it to fit in the correct position which we felt looked best. Using the same image ensures that the front cover relates back to our CD cover, we’ve seen this design feature being used in our research of the ancillary design for example in the drake album where the same image is used throughout the digipak. Continual use of this image makes it become an iconic feature of our of our digipak.

The image was then placed into the middle of the CD, in order to frame it and ensure that the design behind the image could be seen evenly on both sides, placing the image in the middle also meant that the rest of our text and images line up symmetrically in order to give a professional finish product. We then created a Gold boarder similar to our original idea and our research, the Gold relates back to our research, the CD cover and back cover. We ensured that the border colour was the same colour as all the other Gold writing that has been used in our music video and on the ancillary tasks, we wrote down the red, blue and green numbers and typed them in manually. 

We then added text using the font Birch STD which is the same font we have used throughout our digipak and in our music video, we then made it the same gold colour and lined them up symmetrically to the edges of the border in order to give a professional finish. On the bottom of the image we added three roses to give an edge to our design. We tried to use the roses Cally pictures but it just wasn’t giving the same design effect so we referred back to our old CD case and used those roses. To ensure that there was no copyright infringement we emailed the owners of the image to ask for permission to use it and they agreed. 

The lighting wasn't right in these photos, it was quite dark when the photos were taken so the light balance just wasn't correct, hence why we resulted in using the other images of the rose on our front cover. 

Above is how we added the three roses to the bottom of our images.