Creating the back-cover

We have added usual conventions of a CD back cover such as:

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Record label/company:We used our first initials of our names to come up with a name for a record company. The typography we used is different than the other fonts on the back cover. The reason why we have done that is because we wanted it to make it more stand out and eye catching. In addition, we also put a stroke around the letters to make it stand out even more.

Track listWe changed the colours of the track list to yellow because we wanted them to stand out against the background image and make it easier for audiences to trace through when looking for a particular song. Also, the band is called ‘The colours’ so we decided to use bright colours for the typography on the back cover

Institutional information

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In order to make it look more realistic we added institutional information so that audiences know that its not accepted if they copy right the songs. We made the font red later on, because the colour red has connotations of warning, highlighting the fact that audiences should not copy.

• The pose we have chosen for the back cover is similar to the Artic Monkeys pose on one of their album covers. We believe this pose looks very natural as two of the band members look away from the camera. However, Jordan (middle) looks into the camera in order to show audiences that he is the lead singer. Similarly we made him pose in the middle so that audiences easily can recgonise him as a lead singer.

• We cropped out a part of the background from another similar picture we toke on the same day and merged it together with the previous image that we already had. The reason why we did this is because the image was too small and if we would have stretched out the image, the band members would overlap with the song titles.

We blurred the background so that it would look more professional, rather then two separate images. We asked audiences if they realised something unusual about the background cover and the replied no so therefore we knew that blurring them together works out successfully. The brightness and contrast of the background image was also lowered so that the bright colours would be more outstanding and eye catching.

• The albums name is called canvas and in order to emphasis this, we decided to make the image look as if it has been painted on a canvas.

• Another idea we had was to have the background of the image cut out so that the canvas can clearly be seen. Although this made the typography stand out, the final product did not look finished. It was also very difficult to get the edges of the image to bled in with the image of the canvas. The rough edges made the album look unprofessional.