First draft: CD cover

This my first draft for one of the ancillary texts, my CD cover. I chose to use an image which I took whilst shooting on Monday for the front cover which I thought would link well to the music video. In order for the cover to look as if it is part of the pop punk/metalcore genre, I adjusted the threshold of each image on Photoshop to gain the silhouette effect. By doing this, I feel that this makes the cover unique and individual just like other CD covers of this genre. I thought if I used the image as it is, there is a risk that the target audience may think that it belongs to a mainstream genre. I have used the same font style of which I used on the magazine advertisement so a house style for the products was developed. This helps create cohesion between each of the products. I have also chosen to work in a black, white and red colour scheme as  I feel that these colours have connotations of the emotions and feelings represented in both the track and the music video.  For example, these connotations being death and sadness for the colour black, connotations of passion, romance and anger for the colour red and connotations of hope and peace for the colour white.

In order to improve the CD cover for a second draft, I could add suitable text for the inside left part of the cover as this is often a common feature of CD covers within the pop punk genre. The text often consists of thanks from the members of the band and the names of the people who were involved in the production of the single, I could also add more of a design to the inside right of the cover and inside left to make it more interesting and appealing for the target audience to look at. I used a print screen of my existing first draft video to gain the images for for the back and inside left of the cover. Therefore, for future drafts I could take my own images in order to improve the quality of the photograph.