Continuation on editing cd cover

Today I began to put what I have done so far onto the actual layout of the cd cover in order to see how I like it so far. As you can see, compared to my last post, I put down the opacity of the words behind my model, as I wanted to make him stand out more. At the moment I like how it looks but in tomorrow's lesson I will play around with it to see if I can make it any nicer.

Continuation on editing

Today, I began to put a background for the front cover of my cd. I took inspiration from one of my case studies to keep it as text and some background colour. At first, I wanted to keep it as a red background to get across the connotations of danger, as if the artist is daring the viewers to listen to the song. However, I don't really like how the red looks, therefore, I kept it to a neutral grey tone, that is gradient. 

My start on editing

As you can see I have started to get rid of the background so that I can place my model onto another background. So far I think that removing the background was successful, however, I will decide if I want to keep it like this once I have added the background to it. I also used the spot healing brush tool in order to smoothen out my models skin in order for him look glowy. I also did this by playing around with the brightness levels and saturation.

Photoshoot pictures

Today we had a photoshoot in the college's studio for our cd digipack and our adverts. We took many different picture, but I have condensed them down to these which will be the pictures I will consider using once I start putting my advert and cd digipack together.

Call sheet for CD Digipack/Advert photoshoot

CD Digipack Mock Up: FINAL

After experimenting with different colours and where to place texts, I decided to stick to using the colour blue which is much more vibrant and easier to see. I like how the track names follow around the artists body, making it look exciting, which is something I will stick to doing in my final cd cover. However, I feel like the spine is quite simple, so in my final one, I will try to make it much more exciting. Also, I like where i have placed the parental advisory logo and the disk logo, which is what I will do in my final piece.

CD Digipack Mock Up: PART 2

In today's lesson, I continued to finish my cd mockup. As you can see, I decided on using the colour blue which is much clearer. I also went on to add the conventional logo's in the corners of the front of the cd. In addition to this, I started to do the spine and I plan to finish the whole cd digipack mock up next lesson.

CD Digipack Mock up: PART 1

In today's lesson, I started to make my cd mockup. I've put the two images together and I have began to add in text. I also added in the spine so that it is easier for me to start placing things on the front of the cd. Originally, I wanted the text to be yellow, however, as you can see, yellow kind of washes out into the image and is harder to see, therefore, in the next lesson, I will start to think about changing the colour, and continuing on finishing the mock up.

Team meeting

After receiving the feedback yesterday on our print products pitch, we have decided to continue looking at more ways we could find inspiration, through more different products, and from different genres, since Afro Beats is quite a hard genre to find print products on.

My own presentation for some of my case studies

These are some more case studies that I have looked at individually. However, I have some more case studies of my own on the group presentation in the previous blog post, which are afrobeats. 

Case studies on cd digipak and advert

Print products pitch: Failure to upload

I was meant to upload the print products pitch here on my blog, so that I could analyse the different feedback that we received, however, the hard drive has broken and our footage is on there, resulting in us not being able to retrieve it. However, we will try to receive more feedback from other people based on our presentation which we still have, in order to hep guide us again.