With our chosen song Pixie lott - Like a Broken Arrow, we have to create a CD digipack to go alongside our music video. In order to achieve this successfully, I am having to undertake some background research on Cd covers and digipacks that are already existent in today's shops. I will look at some of a similar genre to ours which is "pop" and i will also research some that are of a different genre, to see what other contrasting images are used.
Christina Aguilera - Fighter
Although Christina hasn't been "On the scene" for a while now as she has recently had a baby, she has always been a key player within the pop industry. This album cover for her 2000 album "fighter" caught my eye immediately.
I love how the whole image on the front cover is just her eye itself. The lighting used has captured the brightness of her blue eye and makes it stand out. The "feather like" eye lashes also bring more attention to her eye, as they are long and take up a lot of space on the cover.
A co-ordinated font colour has been used to match the colour of her eye make up and edited skin tone. Also, a simple font as been used as the image on the front is already striking enough to attract the buyers interest. A more "fancier" font has been used for the title of the album. I like the way it has been used in a white colour as this stands our against her skin tone. This has made me realise that the image on the front doesn't have to be an image of the whole singer/artist and could just be a small part of them.
Katy Perry - Ur So Gay
This CD cover caught my eyes straight away when searching for a cd cover by Katy on google search engine. With the almost "drunk" photo of Katy placed amongst a blackened background, it immediately makes her stand out more due to her pale skin tone and bright retro glasses and hair accessories.
The colour and font of the writing is multi coloured, almost rainbow like as it fades into different colours. These bright colours match well with the accessories Katy is wearing in the picture and connotes this "retro" feel very well. Also, the font used looks rather 70's/80's and this is when the common "retro" period occurred.
I like how we can't really depict Katy's features at all on her face, yet by the image having her tongue sticking out, it creates this whole fantasy about her and that she is a fun pop star and has fun music to go along with her bubbly personality.
Lily Allen - LDN
Similar to Lily Allen's crazy personality and slightly weird lyrics within her music, is this rather "wacky" CD cover. Lily herself takes up most of the cover and is placed centered int he middle so when people are buying this CD, they know it is hers straight away.
The title for this single is called "London town" and the mise en scene in the background of this cover represents this title well. There is Big Ben and the London Eye in the far background and to the right of Lily is a typical red London bus in which you will find pretty much anywhere throughout the entire City of London.
Another thing I really particularly like about this CD cover is the fact that the dress Lily is wearing isn't real and has been animated on to her figure. With its striking white patterns and different fonts of "LDN" written across it, really stands out against the red colour of the dress. this has made me realise that costume is actually very important when it comes to making the front cover of a CD digi-pack.
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