The finished CD cover

Here is the final CD cover, although it is still in development we are confident that this is as close to finished as it will get the only thing we might add to it is logos or special offer shapes. We will do this and post the finished version when its done. To create this we have taken the winner from both questionnaires we conducted. One questionnaire was to find the font use and the other was to find out which photography people preferred. It wasn't just about the questionnaires though me and Matt both preferred these winners as well we did vote on the questionnaire and both voted for the winners, this is because we think that both the photograph and the font perfectly fit the genre we are trying to target, the rock indie genre.



We will now add to the cd cover by building the digipak around it, this is the start of a very long process . We will conclude the process by conducting feedback on our product and make improvements from there.

Questionaire - The Font Results

Here are the questionnaire results for the font. We conducted this questionnaire to see which font people preferred. We would then use this font in the development of digipak and our magazine article.


Here is the winning font which we will put with the winning photograph to create the CD cover.

Questionaire - The text

Here is a copy of the questionnaire we sent out to get people views on the text that we should use on our digipak front cover as well as the front cover to the Magazine article. we have done this to create a product identity as i feel this is important in the music industry. I think it helps the Fans of the band pick out their band because they recognize their logo.

Questionaire results - The Photograph

Below is a copy of our questionnaire results, these results will help us decide which photograph to pick for the front of our CD covers and as you can see from the results number one won.



Below is the winning photograph, we will now put this together with the winning text and then produce the end cd cover to go onto the digipak .

Questionaire - The Photograph

This is a copy of the questionnaire that we handed out to students at our school to see which front cover they preferred. We handed it out to 15 students, from the results we will use their favorite for the front cover of our digipak.

cd cover idea 2

This is one of the CD covers that i have very quickly designed, although its not the right size and proportions it is just a very quick mock up of what we hope to get from the finished product.

CD cover idea 1

This is another one of the CD covers that i have very quickly designed, although its not the right size and proportions it is just a very quick mock up of what we hope to get from the finished product.

more cd cover ideas

Again here are some of the CD covers that i have very quickly designed, although its not the right size and proportions it is just a very quick mock up of what we hope to get from the finished product.

More photographs from photo-shoot one

These are a few photographs that i have singled out as the best photographs to go on the front page of my CD cover although some of the photographs are the right dimensions yet, this is an easy thing to sort out in Photoshop.

Good photographs from photo-shoot one

These are a few photographs that i have singled out as the best photographs to go on the front page of my CD cover although some of the photographs are the right dimensions yet, this is an easy thing to sort out in Photoshop.

Thumbnails

Below is a copy of our contact sheets for the photo shoot we did for the Digipak and the magzine article. As you can see some of the photographs are good, but some of them are just blank or are really boring. This was where i was trying to set up my camera best for the photo shoot. The camera set up was a challenge for us because we were working with our own lights and had to set the camera up manually to try and create the best visual effect.

Rough ideas for Digipak cover

Existing CD covers

Below are a few existing CD covers by the Kaiser Chiefs.

As you can see from the CD covers above the kaiser Chiefs like to use the two types of CD cover design they have gone for the arty design with the two on the left and right as well as choosing to go for the more traditional band photograph which is in the middle. I feel the indie genre influences which type of CD cover design a band picks. Most indie Bands for example will choose to have the arty design whereas most bands from the pop genre of music will choose to have a band shot, here are a few examples which support my theory.

Here are a few CD covers By the Killers

The killers in my opinion are rather like the Kaiser chiefs, they produce the same genre of music as well as having the same demographic of fans. like the kaiser chiefs as well they have gone for the arty CD covers rather then the band photograph front. Unlike the Kaiser Chiefs though the killers have kept the same logo all the through their CD covers. this helps them to produce a brand identity.

here are a few CD covers from Coldplay


Again coldplay have the same genre and demographic as the Kaiser Chiefs and The Killers, again they have very arty CD covers and like the kaiser chiefs they don't stick with the same band logo.

Here are a few cd covers but from different genres of music

here are three examples of CD covers from the pop genre as you can see they all have a photograph of the band/artist, JLS are the only band out of the three though that has a real logo. this logo will be used to publicize all of JLS forthcoming performances, albums posters etc. i would have to carry out more research to see if the other two's artists logo were part of a product identity like JLS's.

DVD cover research

digipak research

Digipaks come in all shapes and sizes from small ones like the one above



to the medium sized one here



and then they bigger still with the special editions like the one above.