How Effective is the Combination my Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

Cover and Back

This is my CD Cover, I have designed this cover to reflect the rebellious nature of the music and the video. I have had to make the most adjustments to this cover, mostly due the original name Fallen and the logo I had created, unfortunately shared many similarities with the brand “Fallen Footwear” therefore I had to change anything that had the original logo on and edit the logo to look different. The nature of this cover is excellent as in the video, Tom and Lee wear their hoods up to conceal their true identity and this cover shows none of the band and their identity making them mysterious and fills them with a sense of enigma as to their true identity.

My CD back is perhaps the most least changed of the products. I designed it to show the band members in circles, since in my opinion I believe that the band should always be seen at least one point on an album other-wise the person listening to the album aren't going to know who is performing the album. This again to some artists is considered unconventional who keep their identity hidden, such as KISS and Slipknot. Most bands however choose not show their faces since, unlike a groomed pop artist such as Justin Beiber their face will not sell albums.

Poster

My poster was perhaps the most interesting creation as I originally intended it to feature the band it. However my research and audience feedback once again showed the error in my way and that most posters do not have the band on them. Similarly it is useful that I removed the band since it allows the product group to look more like a collection and so that people will know that this looks similar to the album and therefore is Flare’s tour to go with the album.

How My Digi-Pak Relates to the Genre

The common colours associated with the Rock music genre’s are a mixture or murky browns, greens and other dark colours with one distinct bright colour standing out on the page.

Similar to these examples: Iron Maiden use the yellow as their striking colour and the rest is either black or grey. “Piece Of Mind,”

Judas Priest, have an entirely black background with a single striking image. “British Steel”My CD cover uses a bright, powerful

background colour and a powerful yellow in the centre which stands out. Out of the albums on the right, Iron Maidens, Piece of Mind album and Aerosmith’s Nine Lives stand out due there use of colour.

This Aerosmith cover is slightly unconventional to my theory, however it still incorporates the same idea, the stand out parts are of course the red and orange parts with the blue being more darker and more subtle. “Nine Lives”

This Mötley Crüe album follows the conventional trend of having a solid black background but has a very striking unconventional image on the cover perhaps one of the reasons why I didn’t choose to incorporate an image on the cover since it is difficult to do it effectively like this “Shout At The Devil” album.

What I have Learnt from Audience Feedback?

When I was creating my products, it was vitally important to gain an audiences perspective on what they wanted my products to be like, since after all they would be one who would buy the album if it were to actually go on the sale. The audience can be very harsh; in my case with my colour scheme (although quite late on in the product development) saying how it didn’t look at all like the genre I was attempting to replicate. The audience know what they want from a product, they know if they would want that album in their home next to their other albums and in my case originally they obviously didn’t want to but I think with the aid from the audience feedback that my product has evolved into a professional looking product that would be accepted into the genre that is rock.