Ideas for our front cover

We each had many ideas on what sort of photo that we wanted for the front cover of our digipak. However, we all agreed that we wanted it to be a picture of the band. We had different ideas that it should be a performance shot of the band similar to the band 'Paramore' on their CD 'The final riot' where each band member is in a performance shot in a column next to each other on the front cover. Another idea was to just have the band looking at the camera with their instruments, or just holding their instruments. An example of this cover is 'The Kooks' and their album 'Inside in Inside Out'. Here you can clearly see each band member in the photo holding the instrument that they play. After much discussion on what sort of photos to take we asked Rob and Gareth what days they were free to take photos and when would they prefer to do them. However, due to Rob getting a new job with more hours it meant that we could only get all four of us together on one day.

On the morning of the day that we were taking pictures I took a look through my mum's CD collection to get some more inspiration and ideas for our front cover and a digipak to blog about. I found a CD which was very similar to an idea that was mention in the group. The CD was 'Blur: the best of'. I showed everyone else and we agreed that this would be our front cover.


<==== Blur: the best of

We all really liked this idea as it was very simple, effective and eye catching. It also clearly shows each of the band members which some CD covers often don't do. I liked the different colours of the background behind each person because it breaks up the overall image and almost gives a separate personality to each of the band members. We preferred the layout of the actual CD case on the left rather than the protective slip on the right because the pictures were much bigger and filled the whole CD cover. The pictures also made the title very clear and at a centre point to be noticed.

                        A nearly finished front cover====>
                                                                        After school me and Joe then got Rob and Gareth to come round to my house to take the photos. We placed ourselves one by one against a flat blank wall in my bedroom and took many pictures from varying distances  and poses so that we had a variety to choose from. I then uploaded the photos and chose which ones I would use. At first I started off so that we all had a neutral pose and facial expressions. However, this was not interesting to look at. I the blur CD cover the faces are in the style of pop art so that it is catchy and different. Therefor, I used the photo of me looking off at an angle rather than at the camera and used the picture of Gareth with a big smile. This broke the cover up a lot giving a different image to each person. I also used an editing website on the internet which was http://www.picnik.com/. This allowed me change the photos into black and white, although this made the cover dull. Finally, I realised i needed to add some colour to the cover so I edited the photos so that the t-shirts we were all wearing are in colour and everything else is in black and white. The only thing left that may be changed is the writing and font in the middle as it looks to much like Microsoft word and not original.