I started off with working on the CD as that was nearly completed and I wanted that to be finished. I firstly coloured in the inner part of the smaller circle in the centre, to give it the look of an actual CD. I then added the MTB logo to the back, to fit into the conventions. The last conventional thing I need to add is the logo of the company, as all my case study CD's included that. I was going to add the song titles however it looked too crowded, so I took it off.
I did experiment with the background of the CD - I had initially wanted it to have graffiti as I felt like I had not included enough indicators of the 90's hip hop theme, and focused largely on the clueless, girly aspect of the song, video and group. I added a graffiti image, coloured around the sides and turned the opacity to 40%-50% however on feedback from my friends with me I decided to take it back. Instead, I used a shiny png cd template from google, as ti resembled how the CDs were styled in the 90's and also the CD that was used in Bell Biv Devoe's 'Poison' album:
This is what my CD looked like at the end of my editing session:
I then went on to the back cover. As shown in the blog posts, the back cover looked like this:
However,through the editing process, I had thought that the back cover did not look like a back cover, and in some ways resembled a front. Also, it was hard to create a front cover to go along with this back cover, as the picture and styling of the back cover was so prominent and ... created, that the front cover ...
From this, and peer feedback whilst I was editing today, I decided to make this the front cover instead. I deleted the typography that had been placed on the cover that was conventional of a back and left the name of the album and the names of the three girls. I wanted to then add different elements that made it look more like a front cover, and stand out and so I decided to add a pink border around it. This was largely inspired by the single cover for Raye - Decline:
Although this is not a 90s song, I felt like the style could fit into the modern pop vibe that Side Crush has.
After adding the pink border, I started to place 'MTB' around the side. However, I felt like this was too close to Raye - Decline, and it also did not fit the conventions of my case study and 90s album covers where the name of the group is using big on the cover. From this I decided to put 'Side2Side' in the border, and put MTB at the top:
Around 20+ copies of the word were created and placed around accordingly:
I then added a 'parental advisory' logo - after this, my front cover was complete:
After doing this, I wanted to change the side strip to fit the theme slightly more. I experimented with changing the stripes back and forth from vertical to horizontal, and changing the colours from pink and black to pink and white. At the end, I decided that plain pink was best:
I then moved onto working on a new back cover. I decided to use a concept similar to the concept I was going to use for my old front cover and had used on my advert - I used rectangles to create three lines, 2 pink and one white in the middle. I then created smaller rectangles to place in between the three big ones, so that it had the same styling as the advert. I then chose an image I was going to cut around for each girls picture, finally deciding on this one:
I firstly used the Quick Selection tool to cut around Jenae and drag her onto the tab that had the back cover background, placing her inside the white rectangle. As there was still some of the background there, I used the brush tool to colour around it with white:
After doing this, I dragged the conventional features from the old back cover onto this one such as the writing at the bottom. I also put the song tracks at the back, however I used the initial style that I had made in Illustrator rather than the seperated one that was on the old back cover:
After putting these features on it, I decided I liked the look and style of the back cover and carried on with using this style:
I again used the Quick Selection tool to outline the left of the photo and dragged it to the same tab, again using the brush tool to colour in the parts of the background that were still showing:
I did not get to finish colouring it in, so I will do that next. I added a barcode to add more of the conventional features.
At the end of my editing session, the back cover looked like this:
The front cover looked like this:
The CD and inside panels like this:
And the spine like this:
However,through the editing process, I had thought that the back cover did not look like a back cover, and in some ways resembled a front. Also, it was hard to create a front cover to go along with this back cover, as the picture and styling of the back cover was so prominent and ... created, that the front cover ...
From this, and peer feedback whilst I was editing today, I decided to make this the front cover instead. I deleted the typography that had been placed on the cover that was conventional of a back and left the name of the album and the names of the three girls. I wanted to then add different elements that made it look more like a front cover, and stand out and so I decided to add a pink border around it. This was largely inspired by the single cover for Raye - Decline:
Although this is not a 90s song, I felt like the style could fit into the modern pop vibe that Side Crush has.After adding the pink border, I started to place 'MTB' around the side. However, I felt like this was too close to Raye - Decline, and it also did not fit the conventions of my case study and 90s album covers where the name of the group is using big on the cover. From this I decided to put 'Side2Side' in the border, and put MTB at the top:
Around 20+ copies of the word were created and placed around accordingly:
I then added a 'parental advisory' logo - after this, my front cover was complete:
After doing this, I wanted to change the side strip to fit the theme slightly more. I experimented with changing the stripes back and forth from vertical to horizontal, and changing the colours from pink and black to pink and white. At the end, I decided that plain pink was best:
I then moved onto working on a new back cover. I decided to use a concept similar to the concept I was going to use for my old front cover and had used on my advert - I used rectangles to create three lines, 2 pink and one white in the middle. I then created smaller rectangles to place in between the three big ones, so that it had the same styling as the advert. I then chose an image I was going to cut around for each girls picture, finally deciding on this one:
I firstly used the Quick Selection tool to cut around Jenae and drag her onto the tab that had the back cover background, placing her inside the white rectangle. As there was still some of the background there, I used the brush tool to colour around it with white:
After doing this, I dragged the conventional features from the old back cover onto this one such as the writing at the bottom. I also put the song tracks at the back, however I used the initial style that I had made in Illustrator rather than the seperated one that was on the old back cover:
After putting these features on it, I decided I liked the look and style of the back cover and carried on with using this style:
I again used the Quick Selection tool to outline the left of the photo and dragged it to the same tab, again using the brush tool to colour in the parts of the background that were still showing:
I did not get to finish colouring it in, so I will do that next. I added a barcode to add more of the conventional features.
At the end of my editing session, the back cover looked like this:
The front cover looked like this:
The CD and inside panels like this:
And the spine like this:
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