CD Development

I began drafting the CD by coming up with a few ideas. First of all, I thought we could use Ellie's lips as a continuing theme on the CD. They would match the colour of the front CD cover and of course there is a direct link between the CD picture of the lips and the front cover.

I cut the photo above from the original photo on the front cover of the CD. At first I just started by cutting it out very roughly, then pasting it onto a new file on top of a CD base. As you can see below, I have taken the lips directly from the original photo to show continuity. The design below was only my first design so is very rough. The edges will need to be sharpened and the lips will need to be made redder and brighter to match the original.

The designs below are a few that I came up with as a starting point. Using the idea of repetition from my research, I took time to repeat the word 'Ignorance' over and over again. I think it looked effective but I wasn't entirely happy. The word was written in black, whereas on the front cover, 'IGNORANCE' is written in red. The lack of continuity bothered me and I tried some other ideas. The idea of putting the name of the artist, the song and the lips across the middle of the CD was a favourite of mine. I liked the way the lips represented the original lips on the photo on the front of the CD but I thought this design seemed a bit boring and it needed to be more exciting. I then came on to copy and paste the lips many, many times to create lines of lips, almost mimicking the paramore wallpaper that I researched. This worked very well and my group was happiest with this design.

As you can probably tell, we had some work to do on the CD. Although it was our favourite, there were a few things we had to neaten. First of all you will notice that the colour of the lips has changed to a brighter, mroe vibrant red. I lost the original colour of the lips when I began to play around with the lips and consequently had to add the colour back in when I was done. The bottom right print screen shows how I cut the lips that were on the outside of the CD by creating a box around the area, then using a circle tool to cut the lips more definitely and sharply. The bottom left print screen has the word 'IGNORANCE' pasted on the CD. It is quite hard to read, however and we soon agreed that this design was probably not the best.

To keep the CD simple and effective, we accompanied the CD with the background of the same blue that is continuous throughout the digipack. Any other colour would have looked to dark and it would not have the fantastic continuity that I have managed to attain throughout the whole development of the digipack.