Cd Cover Proposals

Cd Cover Proposals:



These were the cd cover proposals, i initially drew my version on a piece of paper with it annotated around it, then the image of the right is of the an proposed version as well and  with the two combined with discussion we got to the final product which is this:

Inlay Cards

Production Log

19/09/11: we have found our artist who is dante pommels, with his artist name as "ST", he is an unsigned artist with a few songs and music videos and is more than happy to feature in our music video and for us to use his song somehow someway. him as an artist seems to fit in perfectly in what we want from our music video to be produced as.

28/09/11: as a group we have started to discuss what we want from our music videos and if we want to adhere to the genre or not.

1/11/11: we today started to take pictures and even videos of our artist performing  the song somehow someway.

12/11/11: we have started our storyboard along with our plans for our cd cover.

15/12/11: we have started some preliminary filming, but without a tripod we did have some difficulties as you can see below

17/01/12: we have started to create our preliminary cd back covers which look like this: 

10/01/12: we have now moved on to our front cover which looks like this:

24/01/12: our inputs have now moved on to the preliminary posters which look like:

02/02/12: we have as a group took ancillary pictures for the cd covers and back covers:

23/01/12: we had a team meeting and created schedules.

22/02/12: team meeting, update on everyone's progress was discussed, we had a discussion on the ancillary texts on what we liked and what we didnt.

03/03/12: we re filmed our chorus at a local park with our artist and narishma, which is now our final chorus and looks very good.

On monday the 13th we decided to meet up and re film as our first filming did not turn out right as we did not have a tripod.

How we chose our ancillary designs and text

During one of our team meetings we, compared our ancillary texts to create the best possible cd cover and back cover and so forth, we decided on the image of our artist looking of in the distance, we chose this image as we has got inspiration from a k koke album cover, k koke is an artist similarly to our own, we thought it would be appropriate and also very effective. The next point that needed to be discussed was the fonts, as we could not find a suitable font that looked effective we decided to use google to find a font from "dafont.com", we decide on the font as it looked very good and suitable, i desgnnied my cd cover as our artist behind a graffiti back wall but other members in the group wanted a shot of london in the background which after some discussion became the most suitable option to take.

For our poster, we all agreed on a landscape poster as it would very nice and eye pleasing, we wanted the artist to be the main focal point, as kelvin was away for one of the days me raisa and samee made a decision of what text we wanted and the sizing as we were running on a time constraint. we all felt the need of the quotes on the poster as it seemed a very typical thing to do which also makes it look very professional, one thing we wanted to make sure was that the identity of the artist was there hence the big wembley sign.

Inspiration for our cd cover: 

On march 22nd i decided to go out and take some filming which turned out to be the basis of our first 1/3 of our music video which is now complete.

This is our back cover to our cd cover, the cd cover has the same theme continuation from the front cover which is the cloudy effect which seems to to work, along with our artist in the background who is faded and looking up towards his name in bold which stands out effectively, with the main song in bold "somehow someway", along with the barcode and the small writing, it makes it look much more authentic and realistic, the artist still upholds his identity of London as there is the picture of the London eye. The connotations of the artist is that he is looking up to something greater which is his name.

This is our final Poster and it consists of our main artist St in the foreground who is glowing which represents that he is the pinnacle point of the poster and that the artist is the main image and the most important to the poster which enables him to stand out and look in control and have authority. The body language of our artist shows that St is looking upwards but also in a strong bold stance with his hands interlinking, with the slight use of bling with the ring, to adhere to the normal stereotypical view of a rapper. On the right hand side of the poster we see St's upbringing and what relates to him as a artist so the wembley sign to show his roots also the london tube map which shows he is from london and the graffiti to also adhere to the area where he grew up and the struggles he has face. Below that in the bottom righ hand corner we have the artist's name is bold so the audience know who our artist is alson with a line from the song which represents St's rise to fame and how it has changed, now that his girlfirend is nbot the only wants to know him and be with him. on the left hand side of the poster we habve our CD cover to show the audience what the CD cover looks like and what it looks like when they go to purchase the CD cover. Another stereotypical feature is the use of quotes from various magazines and people, which rises the profile of the artist which is crucial in attracting a new audience as they are more likely to listen to well know sources that St is an amazing artist with good music. we tried to portray St as a dominant figure and for him to fit in to the culture of rap also the uniqueness of our artist.