Friday, 16 December 2011

Final CD cover



After many problems with the back cover not properly matching up (the fence on the front was not symmetrical to the fence on the back) we finally decided to just take one extra long shot then place it over the whole of the CD cover as this meant the fence was completely lined up. As the bottom part of the image is slightly busy we decided to put the track list in the sky and we feel this works very well. By decreasing the opacity of the image, it softens it slightly and also because we added a yellowish background, it has a slight sepia tint to the image. The font is very idiosyncratic to keep to the usual conventions of Kimya Dawson and how she uses animation and quirkiness to express her fun personality. Overall, we are happy with our CD cover as it is how we expected it to be. The only change is the back cover as we originally had the girl on the back cover as well as the front, however we tried it and it didn't look as good because there were houses in the background and had no room for a track list.









This is the inside of our CD cover. On the right is where the CD will go, and we really like the idea of placing the CD over the acoustic guitar. The only problem with this image is the fact its slightly out of focus, however we do feel the shadows inside the hole work well. On the left is a collage of photographs of 'Kimya Dawson'. Originally we were going to have a newspaper here, however when we were on our photo shoot, we felt a whole page collage would look really good. Once we'd tried to have lots of images covering the page we realized it looked disorganized and a bit too crammed. To keep the continuity of the theme, we used the background of our website as the background on the CD inside cover. The board is to keep it stereotypically quirky and it seemed a very typical thing for Kimya Dawson to have on her own media. Instead of putting all of the images we had taken on there, we decided on the best ones and used 'tape' to stick them on. This will appeal to our audience of females as it's very feminine with the doodles and having the girl to relate to on the front. The doodles also will appeal to the slightly younger audience which we're aiming for.

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