Possible Ideas for Ancillary Texts - CD/Magazine

CD Front Designs

Draft 1: This is our first idea for our CD front cover. We tried to emphasise on the album name; 'Still Not Broken' by portraying the artist on one side broken however on the other side she is complete. The themes that we integrated into this design were soulmates, relationships, incompleteness and loneliness. We strongly based this sketch on the storyline of our music video to help reinforce the themes and emotions that we aim to convey to our audience. 

Draft 2: This was our second design of the CD front cover. We decided to use a close-up of Sandhya so that the minor deails of the effects we used could be seen. This deisgn makes our cover unique, as close-ups are not used too often. The effects that we will use on Photoshop to make her face look 'cracked' will hopefully make this design eyecatching.





CD Inlay Designs

 

This design was inspired by the inlay of Bruno Mars' Doowoops and Hooligans album (below). We thought the digipak overall could portray a number of feelings and emotions. We thought that by using a cartoon effect, it would give out positive thoughts in comparison to the music video which we plan to have a lot of negative emotions incorporated into it.

Another design that we had was that we thought about getting an extreme close-up of our artist and use image editing software to put in a tear and make the picture seem like it had been shattered. This was inspired whilst thinking about glass:



Another idea that we had was to take a shot of our artist against a brick wall. It is often the norm to have simple pictures of the artist as an inlay insert so we thought that by sticking to conventional inlay designs, it may actually look as professional as a real inlay:

CD Back Designs

 

Using pre-existing knowledge of back album inserts, we created a design which incorporated the basic conventions like barcode, artist name, album name and track list. This design was inspired by the back album insert that we found on the internet:

 

Magazine Advert Designs

After drawing and analysing the designs for our magazine advert, we decided that when it comes to actually producing the print media, we should combine these designs. This is because some of the elements from one design are conventional whilst elements from the other more appealing.


Other magazine designs