We designed this CD cover as a group using photoshop during our technical tutorials. We chose this photograph to edit from our practice publicity photo-shoot because we felt the composition of the frame and the use of prop was really conventional to our genre and most effectively met the expectations of a successful publicity photograph. Our choice of font stemmed from our ideas for brand identity and image, we're looking at creating an artist similar to Paloma Faith, a middle way between the 50s look of Amy Winehouse and the more smart, glamorous image of Duffy. However, as we hadn't considered costume in our practice publicity photographs, or the effect of the background, the font doesn't really work so well as it doesn't match the mise-en-scene and the pattern along with the rows of books create an overcrowded look making the title unclear.
I created this version at home, I thought more carefully this time about font and colour. I felt that the black and white effect was conventional to the genre as seen in Duffy's 'Rockferry' album cover and works really well with the background as this provided more leeway for me to use a brightly coloured font and for it still to stand out. By keeping the artist in colour, our aim was to make her appear bright, musically gifted and interesting in comparison to the rest of the world.
My third attempt at making a Draft Cd Cover combined solutions to the problems I faced in both of my previous attempts. In this attempt I kept the black and white colour scheme against the colourful artist as I felt its connotations were well matched to the genre and the image we want to put across for our artist. However in this version I spent more time perfecting the edit, so there were no 'spills' of colour into the black and white frame (as are seen in my second attempt). I also used our decided artist name Veronica Summer and a font called 'Monbijoux' that we are considering using for our finished item.
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