Our CD Cover Analysis

After analysing three CD cover's we decided to create our piece for our chosen song. All three CD cover's I looked at were quite simple covers, but they were all very effective. Through facial expressions or a small added feature made the CD cover's attractable. We tried to pursue these aspects in our CD cover, by using a simple image of Amy, the main character in the music video in the centre of the cover. We've used a off white colour in the background and Amy has a white dress on. By using plain colours makes the artists name stand out, as well as the song tittle. We decided to include the song title in a subtle pink colour, at the top centre of our CD front cover as this is the song we covered. On Amy's white dress there's a pattern design of butterflies, so we inserted an extra butterfly to the right of the last 'T' on Pixie Lott's name. This is a small added feature which helped the balance of the CD cover, so it wasn't too plain but had little detail which had an effective impact. We used Pixie Lott's original signature name which is on here 'Turn it up Louder' album, but we edited it ourself. We did this to create a realistic CD cover but added our own effect to fit our cover.

The back of our CD cover was also produced in a simple way, but we included the same features from the front cover which has an effective impact. We used the same 'Pixie Lott' signature we used for the front cover, but in a smaller size at the top centre. We used the subtle pink as the background this time, instead of the plain white. We did this so there was a varied colour through out, but we used colours that combined well and didn't contrast. We included faint butterflies around the thirteen song titles which are another example of a simple added touch. We included the credits and the barcode at the bottom of the CD cover to give the realistic look. For the inside of our CD case we decided to include the lyrics for leaflet, this is because people who buy CD's would generally want to learn the lyrics and this would help being included. As the song we covered in our music video was 'Use Somebody' we included these lyrics as it is the most important song of the album for us. We used the same colour throughout our CD cover for the background. The writing colour used is the faint grey colour, which is the same colour as the butterfly's we have used. For the part of the cover where the CD will be placed, we simply used the circle design to create the image. We then used several line of the song which we all felt were of some significance to the song, and used these are the circle shape. Again we used the same simple butterfly's which gave that extra touch to the realistic look of all the pieces.