CD Inner Analysis....

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I decided to look at real media examples of CD Inner layout designs, as I will be making one myself in the future to coincide with my artists package.




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CD Inner Leaflet Research....

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Today I decided to take a further look into the key features that make up the liner notes/booklet within the CD packaging:



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CD Front Cover Analysis'....

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Today I decided to do a CD front cover analysis for Indie Pop styled covers from professional artists:

Lana Del Rey's Album Cover - 'Born to Die':



Troye Sivan's Album Cover - 'Blue Neighbourhood':



I will be taking inspiration from these CD front cover when making my own, especially because these artist are associated with the genre of Indie and Pop - which is the concept of my music video and brand concept.


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CD Front Cover - Analysis....

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Today I decided to do an analysis on a CD front cover in regards to the features that I researched within my previous post.
Therefore, I decided to analyse Jason Derulo's album 'Tattoos', as I found that it has a lot of these existing features and more interesting visuals and imagery through illustration:





Overall, this CD front cover artwork has given me a few ideas myself when incorporating the songs on the album though illustrated images on the front cover that are easily recognisable. Therefore, I might try to incorporate this idea into my own artwork on the cover, and possibly throughout the theme of outside life, as this further links itself to my recent idea of overlaying graphics on top of my final music video for Borns - 'Seeing Stars'. This graphics can then be produced throughout the artwork, brand and packaging of my artist.



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CD Conventions....

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Considering that I am going to be creating a CD Package I decided to look into general conventions in order to help me through the process.

Here are some conventions of a CD Package:

Convention of front covers:

• Simplistic colour scheme
• A simplistic design
• Few or no characters
• Use of a different colour for the band name compared to the name of the artist
• Hidden meanings
• Bold and simple fonts for the artist name
• Similar or entirely different font for the album title
• Age restriction if necessary - due to regualtions
• Close-ups or mid-shots of the artist - brings focus on them
• Direct address – artist looking straight at the camera
• Indirect address makes the artist look rebellious, disconnected or mysterious
• Font representing genre of music, e.g. sharped edged font connotes the genre of rock
• Specific logo of artist lets them stand out more

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Coventions of back covers:

• Name of the artist at the top
• Name of album beneath the artists name
• List of song titles which are usually are centred
• Barcode in the bottom right hand corner
• Name of record company
• Copyright and who owns the copyrighted material
• Who the album had been distributed by

Conventions of inner:

• Colour scheme that is the same as the rest of the album
• Blank, plain backgrounds
• No characters, i.e. from music videos
• 'Thank You's' from the artist
• Producers and everyone involved within the production of the album
• A few images of the artist
• A centred page or inserted poster of the artist
• Song lyrics of the songs on the album

Conventions of spines:

• Name or logo of the record company
• Name of artist
• Name of album
• Use simplistic fonts and make it a continuous font throughout your packaging

When making my CD Package I will consider these convention throughout, I might even challenge them in order to come up with something different and unique in order to make my CD Package stand out more to the viewer/consumer.

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