Our dvd album cover!

This is our final dvd album cover. On it we have included all the conventions of a dvd album cover, such as the song list, the 'dvd' logo and we made sure to include the parental advisory logo as one of our songs in particular includes swear words. We decided to use an image of Charlotte on the front cover, as she was featured as our main singer in the video, so she would be most recognisable to the audience and so just by looking at the front cover they would be able to tell that this DVD is by M.I.A. We produced this dvd using photoshop. We had an origional picture of charlotte on a plain white background which we airbrushed, cropped and then inserted onto this bright background. Continuing the theme of bright colours, we made a logo for our band. The writing we used has a patchy effect of white writing with bright colours in the background, this makes it look slightly like a graffiti sketch, therefore making it appealing to our audience of teenagers and also relating directly to our feature video, URAQT, in which the preformance was done infront of a graffiti wall. We also made sure to include the practical element of a barcode.

As we wanted our dvd to include something other than just a dvd, we created an exclusive postcard that can come free inside the dvd cover. This can be put on walls or kept as a souveneer of the dvd by the person who purchased it. This is our exclusive postcard:

This would be a recognisable image to someone who had seen our video as it is taken where the video was filmed. To make this postcard we edited our origional photo using the colour replacement tool, we used this to make the real colours of the photo more vibrant and aesthetically pleasing for the audience.

Examples of existing covers:

As one of the aims of this whole project for us has been to create a product which looks retro, as retro or vintage products are currently fashionable. This is an album cover for Technotronic, Pump Up The Jam. It was produced in the 80's so therefore a good product to compare our own too. Similar to ours, the singer is the main focus. She is also surrounded by bright colours.

Sam Sparrow, while being a current artist, is known for being very 'retro' and also producing retro looking album covers. Interestingly, this album cover looks very similar to our 'M.I.A' logo. Both our logo and this product have an image with splashed bright colours in the background showing through.