Final Album Cover

This is our final album digipack for Lanmou, which Ian created using Photoshop. Changes we made in this final version are most obviously, the pink panels which are the inside left and right. The image of the 8-track tape is below where the disc will be. (see below for disc image). Also we have adapted the front cover, as we felt that it wasn't quite eye-catching enough, by including some shadow on the text and emphasising the streaks. On the bottom of the rear cover we have included the official small print and copyright information, which was accidentally left out on our last draft. 

Further Developments

Today we organised the Photo Shoot for next week, made an appointment with the props department and enquired into a few potential back-up actors, as one of our main actors has been ill for the past week, and we are unsure as to when he will be returning. 

Album cover update

After reviewing our original album cover designs, we have put together the best elements of our concepts to make a new CD cover. Below is the first draft. 

The elements we took from the originals were the bubbly designs on the front and rear covers, and new additions we included are the band photo (which would be a stencil cut-out). We also modified the text font to Venetian to make it easier to read. 
We also changed the layout of the background cover slightly, there were just a few things bugging us such as the order of the songs, one of the longer titles was partially over a light patch so we switched it with a shorter one. Also we put some of the official labelling on the back such as the Barcode and the record label's logo. (This we changed from Columbia to EMI, as we felt it would be better if the audience immediately saw the big name on the rear cover). Below is a picture of the altered rear cover. 

One thing we did notice after we had uploaded these blogs, is that we had left off the copyright and legal small print at the bottom, so this is being put into our latest version. 

Props

For our UV sensitive props, we managed to order them all off one site, saving us the trouble of going out to find them all. 

Feedback

A proficient presentation of the CD digipak design and the importance of album covers.  I feel that you could have developed research more into the conventions of Album digipak's and addressed layout and design more closely.  Excellent initial design's into CD covers for your group artist and good consideration to target audience.  Also from Google docs you might try and embed the PPT into your blog via HTML.

CD and album cover design research

Letter to Columbia Records

Hurtwood House School

Holmbury St. Mary 

Dorking, Surrey

RH5 6NU

Columbia Records UK

Derry Street 

London W8 5HY

To Columbia Records UK,

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:

Electric Feel - MGMT

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely,

Ian Heritier, Nicola Duckert, Richard Hill and Will Day

Hurtwood House School