CD designs

Explaining these ideas:

• We had many ideas for the CD cover and the above picture shows some of them. The front cover will have the artists face (Close-up of the face and then cropped to half of the face) and then a brick wall background to bring a sense of urban, city life feel that the feeling of frustration brings. However, it also contrasts the artists calm and bright appearance within the music video and advert. The album title is the song title, which is conventionally to most artists and also the font is jaggard and scratchy to convey the sense of frustration (concept). 

• The spine is bright yellow, with he text 'Not giving in' and the artists name. This represents crime tape and the connotations surrounding that, such as crime and also linking to the police integration room in the music video. Also, the back cover incorporates the hitting of the punchbag, and we would have the song names shaped to make it look like its apart of the bag. Another back cover would be the illustration of the artist in the field, using a fast shutter speed (15-20). This would express the feeling of freedom this location gives, compared to the other locations. 

• Where the CD is placed in the cover, a clock would be used to represent the interrogation room scene, and the waiting that causes frustration and stress. It link with our theme of not giving in and the waiting that surrounds that. 

• This idea goes against conventions of dance pop CD covers, however, the idea behind it is because our music video contains so much emotion and stress because of our concept and we felt this represented the feelings well. The eyes are often said to be 'the gateway to the soul', because they are expressive and many emotions can be seen through them. This made us think about having the artists eye, and turning up the contrast to make the iris stand out-still keeping to the bright colours of the sub-genre. Also, we thought about replacing the iris with the field from the music video, or blending two locations together to create a juxtaposition between the feelings of calm and manic.