2. We decided to stick with the original layout that we previously
made because it conformed to the typical conventions of the
back of an album. We made sure to include everything need for
the back of the album; song titles, spine, bar code, institutional
information and the logo of the record company. We choose to
have a simple font for the typography so that it could easily be
read.
3. • The main thing we changed was the main image of the album. We
decided to choose this image because the medium close up frame
clearly shows the artists for the audience to recongnise. We also
thought the pose was effective because the lead singer is the only
one looking directly at the camera which catches audiences
attention as it seem like he is watching them. We directed them to
pose in this way in order to catch the audiences attention, we
choose Jordan to look directly at the camera because he's the lead
singer and would therefore be the most well know member in the
band as a result fans will be more familiar with him. This pose was
inspired by images that the Arctic Monkeys used in their albums.
4. • One of the problems that we faced was the image being too
small, we could not stretch out the photo to fit the whole
background because the song titles would overlapped the
two of the band members, making the album look
unprofessional. In order to avoid this we cropped a section
of the background from another photo and added it to the
image we had chosen.
5. • We decided to blur the background so that it would look as one, rather then two
separate images. The brightness and contrast of the image was also lowered so that
the bright colours would be more outstanding. Having the background blurry also
makes the setting more mysterious, as the location we choose did not connote
anything interesting that went with the theme of the album or name.
• We then made the spines of the CD more clear by making them black. We also
changed the colour scheme from white, yellow, blue and orange to yellow, blue and
red because they are primary colours and therefore most commonly used. They are
also bright and eye-catching colours making the ablum appeal more to the
audience. We also chose these colours because we wanted the album to look
colourful as the name of the band is 'The Colours'. We also changed the coulours so
that they would stand out against the background because the previous white
colour used for the song titles did not stand out. We made a conscious choice to
have the track numbers and song titles different colours so that it would be easier
for the audience to read and trace whatever song they wanted to listen to.
6. • Because the album is called Canvas we wanted to give the image an
effect so that it would look like it had been painted onto a canvas. I
firstly thought of having an image of a canvas at the back of the
image of the band. I then slightly faded the image of the band so
that the texture of the canvas would show through the band photo.
However we decided that this was not effective because the image
did not stand out as much after it was faded out. We showed the
image to a group of people and asked if the image looked like it had
been painted onto a canvas. The general response was that the
texture did look like a painted canvas but the image should be
brighter therefore we changed it again.
7. • Another idea we had was to have the background of
the image cut out so that the canvas can clearly be
seen. Although this made the typography stand out,
the final product did not look finished. It was also
very difficult to get the edges of the image to bled in
with the image of the canvas. The rough edges made
the album look unprofessional.
8. • We finally thought to change the texture of
the image. We added a craquelure texture and
played around with he spacing, depth and
brightness of the cracks until we were sure
that the image had a painted effect.
9. • We changed the logo of the record company
so that I would look more unique compared to
the rest of the typography. We choose to
merge the first letters of our group members
names and came up with the name RSN
Records for the record label name. We choose
the Rosewood Std font because its bold and
different from the rest of the typography. We
added a black stroke to the font to make it
stand out even more.
