2. I made a Cd front and back cover for a made up group ‘fixaz’ and gave it a made up title ‘cutting shapes’ and the genre for this album was
dubstep.
I felt that this album artwork fit in very well with the genre dubstep as I used many words that people nowadays use to refer to dubstep. As
the background I used a plain black piece with ‘wub’ written all over, on both the front and the back cover as ‘wub’ it what the how the beats
in dubstep sound so therefore when the audience sees the album art they will notice that the genre is dubstep. I also named the album
‘cutting shapes’ because that phrase refers to partying hard (parties being where the majority of dubstep is played). I made the title of the
album and the album artist in a font in which resembles concrete as the people who tend to listen to dubstep refer to it as ‘hard’ and
‘heavy’. The names of my songs, written on the back too fit in well with the genre of music with songs relating to party and bass. On the
front cover of the CD I used many pictures of me making a ‘dubstep face’ in which is a crazy face people supposedly get when listening to
dubstep.
On the front and back I used a pitch black background with ‘wub’ in bright colours such as green, yellow and purple all over it to make the
album artwork colourful and eye-catching. On the front cover I used a white, concrete-like font in which was sans-serif so it would stand out
from the background; I also made it fairly large so it was clearly visible to the customer. On the front cover of the CD I also place many
pictures of me making a dubstep face as I thought the CD cover wouldn’t look at attractive without actually pictures taken and placed on it;
the effect I gave with these pictures was a reflecting effect by duplicating images and placing them opposite each other. I felt that all these
features worked and look well on my final CD cover.
Some of the features I thought that didn’t work are the names of the songs, not the names themselves but how they are placed on the back
cover of the CD as they are placed on some white spray paint like backgrounds each in which all look fairly amateur. Also the back of the
CD has its credits and barcode in the right position but I feel I have worked my artwork around them and not worked them around my
artwork as they now stand out too much; I also made the font for the credits too large as well.
I felt that the most difficult part of designing the CD cover on Photoshop was the cutting out of the pictured of me using the magnetic-lasso
as if a mistake was made I would have to start it over again and it was tricky getting the cutting out of the shape accurate. This also made it
hard to fit it onto my CD cover as certain pictures were abnormal shapes and didn’t fit together.
I learnt from making this CD how to cut out specific parts from pictures, how to get rid of white blanks from pictures etc, how to edit fonts
e.g. distort them and how to edit the colours of pictures. I have also learnt how to use the tools efficiently and how to create things as quickly
as possible.
If I had more time then I would take better pictures with a better quality camera using better lighting etc. and I would cut them out better
on Photoshop if I had more time. I would also take more time producing the names into the same font as the title and artist name of the
album however that would have been a lengthy process. I would make the credits and barcode stand out less and also add a record label.
