David Guetta album cover

This album is by David Guetta and it called One Love which is also one of the tracks on the album.
The most eye catching thing about this album cover is the picture of David Guetta on the front in black and white. Because it is black and white it make the title on the album cover in white and pink stand out a lot more, i think that is why they have chosen the picture of David Guetta to be in black and white. He is wearing glasses in the photo which is hiding his identity but also making him look "modernyl trendy" at the same time. You can also see the make/name of his Tshirt which says "haymakers" this to an audience would create voyeuristicv pleasure, making the audience want to be/act like David Guetta as he is placed on this photo.

The back of this album is very interesting to look at. its got a white background unlike the front and still consists of the black and pink theme.
Down the spines of the CD cover it has a customised David Guetta banner like strip, which is pink with david guetta wrote in white on it.
The "One Love" looks like it has been painted on scruffily but it look cery effectiv eon the cover. The song are not just placed in the centre or the top the the back of the CD cover there placed to the bottom right hand coner. The font it fairly small but readable. It gives the name of the song in normal font then who ever the song is sung with (Feat) is placeed in bold font to stand out from the rest of the normaly fonts.

The conventions of the CD cover are placed differently to a normal/ the other CD covers i have looked at. It says "music by BMI" down the spine instead of just at the bottom with the bar code and the bar code is placed in the top right hand corner with the artist's name "David Guetta" underneither it also with a pink border round it.

Daft Punk album cover

This album is Daft Punk, the album had the same name as the artist Daft Punk.
I looked at this album cover because it is the same genre of music and wanted to contrast and compare it to mine.
The image on teh front is just some edited font creating the name of the artist and the album name. The text is placed simply just in the middle of the black CD cover canvas, i think that if it was placed anywhere else either at the top or the bottom then it wouldnt look as good because been in the middle it stand out to a buyer. The text is not huge and does not take up the full front cover just a small chunk out the middle. The cover does not contain voyeuristic pleasure as there are no pictures of the artist/band on the front cover i think this creates a sense of mystery because the buyer wouldnt know what the artist/artists look like.
The album cover is very simple just edited text placed on a black/blank background but still look very effective to an audience.

The back of the CD cover is again a black/blank canvas and the writing is all hunched together in the middle in a different font to the front title this is because if the back font was the same as the front it would take up all of the back cover as it is set in a large font. The font on the back is just plain white and very small, almost kind of hard to read.

It has all the conventions a CD cover for example the bar code and the manager’s name, Music Company and barcode.

Magazine Design

This is my front cover i designed to act as an advertising merchant in a magazine of my choice.i decided against using viyeuristic pleasure like my music video becuase i think it still selss well without using it. I would choose this front cover to be in magazines such as "Look" or "More" because they would select my target audience very well. However it would be mainly females reading this magazine so i would also like to put it in TV guide genre of magazines becuase then all of my target audience would see it and read this genre of magazine.

Armand Van Helden is a very well known DJ and song producer so if they saw his album been advertised in magazines they would definately know who he was. Middle aged/ over 50's would most likely not know who Armand Van Helden was so that is why i chose my target audience aa young adults/teenagers so i would have a wider range of magazines to choose from instead of maybe only a few if i chose an older audience.

CD cover ideas

This is the CD cover template i will be using for my CD cover designs. Although the front of my CD cover and the back look alot bigger then the original CD template it would be down sized to fit the template.


I took a few images for my CD front cover also the back of the album cover too. I wanted to carry the beach theme from my music video throught to my CD cover. I wanted the audience to recognise this reflection from my music video to the front cover. I feel that the picture also reflects in the lyrics, for example "you dont even know me, you say that im not living right" this picture creates a peacefull/tranquill setting. I have edited this photograph by making the lighting different to the original to try and make the sea and the heart in the sand the main features.

I added the heart in the same because i think when he wrote this song you can tell its really speaking from the heart also i feel it creates a positive start to the album before listening to it.

MY album shape is a rectangle rather than a square because i wanted it to be different. I used Monotype Corsiva for my font because it was the one that fitted and looked the best with the beach scene, I am also using this for the back cover to it dosent look odd using a different font.

I think the front of my CD cover could have been made a bit stronger by maybe taking pictures of the cast i used in my music video and put them on the front of my CD cover so the audience can reflect more towards the song and music video. However i have only edited the picture i took slightly and i think i looks like i have edited it alot more seen as the colours contrast well on it.



This is the back of my CD cover displaying the name of the songs and what number track the song is on the CD. The main focus on the cover is the two foot prints in the sand and tho font. I used the idea of foot print to try and make it like the other side of the beach because the Front CD cover is of the sea. I used the same font as the front CD cover too which is Monotype Corsiva, although it is a fancy font and the genre of the music is dance still think it flows well having something to do with the music video aswel. The names of the songs do take up alot of room on accross the CD cover but i wanted it like this because of the font i used.
There are also the conventions of bar codes and music production company which appear on the back cover only.

Overall this back CD cover was not very hard to make but still looks good and looks like a pair with the front of the CD cover. To improve the back cover i could have taken an establishing shot of Bridlington along the front of the beach and done lot of editing to it.

Calvin Harris album cover

This is the album cover is for Calvin Harris's Album called Ready For The Weekend.
The most eye catching thing you first see about the album cover is the womens face on the front with the fly like dimantie glasses. This make the album cover more mysterious/effective as you can not see her eyes, Also the picture is in black and white which makes you look at the picture differently due to not been able to see the womens hair colour ect.

The women will have obviously been posed like the way she is as its an extreme close up of her full face. The lighting in the shot looks like it has been shined up into her face from down below automatically giving her status. Songs on the album such as "Im not alone" and "Ready for the weekend" relate to this picture as the women does not seem old only in her late teens/early 20's.

Although we can not see the Womens eyes she is stil holding a very strong poise with her jaw which suggests independance/individuality towards he audiences.

The same font is used throughout the album from the Album title to the song titles. The album is no perticually "fancy" compared to some modern albums. It used a computer/electrical like font throughout the album.

The title of the album is written down the side on an angle so its not covering any of the womens face on the cover. I think this look very effective because its located down the spine of the album you just straight away see the womens face before anything else which is kind of iconograpical towards Calvin Harris.

The back of the album is meant to be the womens head at the front showing her hair, but still in the black and white theme. This goes really well because it follows on from the front of the album of the womens face.

on the back on the album there are usual conventions which you expect to see on the back of a CD cover which are the manager’s name, Music Company and barcode.

Test Shoots and Scripting

Before i started filming i did three test shots too double check my filming would eb of a good quality.

first test shot:
First i filmed over the sea to check the lighting for when i was filming some weather shots and panning along the beach.


second test shot:
Secondly i filmed the mise-en-scene to check the camera was shooting my cast clearly, because one of my cast was wearing a brightly coloured pink jacket i wanted too double check it would be a problem.




third test shoot:
the last test i did was on picture quality when filming. The second time i filmed on the beach it was very bright to begin with then then it became cloudy during the day and i didnt want it to look bad continuity, as if i had filmed it all over different days.

I didnt need to use any scripts for my music video because nobody was miming or speaking over the song. I didnt want any voice overs because i thought it would ruin my chosen song and no voice overs needed to be used to express any emotion or actions.

One more time - Daft Punk

This genre is the same as my chosen song. the lyrics repeat them selfs through out the song alot which is similar to my song. first released as a single on 13 November 2000[1] and later included in the 2001 album Discovery.

Distributed by Virgin Records.

Length
5:20 (album version/radio edit)
3:55 (short radio edit)
8:00 (club mix)


The song's incudes editing such as vocal performance by Romanthony is heavily auto-tuned and compressed also the music video featured scenes from the later released Japanese anime film Interstella 5555.