Cd Cover Final

Cd Cover Draft

When creating our cd cover we wanted it to simple but also eye catching to the listeners. We first decided on using a city background to contradict the acoustic genre as it is usually associated with the countryside, however when we finished our draft we thought that our cd cover looked over crowded and the city background distracts from the importance of our artist. The use of the birds being the only thing in colour was used to emphasize the idea that nature conquers over the city as this idea links to the acoustic genre. This idea is conveyed by the birds being in red which is an extremley powerful and dominant colour. From this draft we kept the image of lucy the same because we thought the idea of not having a close up is different from other album covers which will make our artist unique and suggests that the music she creates is also very different from other artists today. Also we decided we didnt like 'Bella Diem' being in white as it doesnt look striking enough to attract listeners or passer bys in music stores and thought plain black would look far more classy and attractive. We also felt that the style font used on 'Bella Diem' was not what we wanted. We wanted it to be very swirly and fancy, as we thought this would suit our target audience better as girls would not like a font that is bulky and unflattering on the cd cover.

Group logo for cd cover

I designed our group logo for the Cd cover and tour posters on photoshop. When designing this logo i decided to research on well established logos for inspiration:

This simplicity of this logo is effective in showing the audience cleary which record company produced the cd and the black and white effect is powerful in standing out on the back of the cover. From this i decided to create a black and white simple logo as i felt anything too fancy and over the top wouldn't be clear to the buyer and would make the back cover look messy and overcrowded.

The idea for a silhouette of a cocktail glass was created after a discussion with my group for what  symbol would best represent us. We decided that because were all female we should have something sophisticated but also something extremley simple. This lead to us browsing the internet for ideas. We wanted a silhouette of an object because we wanted a very plain logo. This eventually ended in us having a small cocktail glass as we felt this looked classy, simplistic and stood out against the light backgroud of our media products.

Inspiration we recieved from Adeles 'Rolling in the deep' video

From watching Adele's 'Rolling in the deep' official music video on Youtube, we was captivated by the simplicity and beauty of the shots. I really liked the close-up shots of Adeles face as they were very emotive and the close-up of specific features such as the mouth and eyes helped portray the themes in the lyrics such as love and loss. This video inspired us to have performance shots within our own music video as we felt this would create a personal touch to the audience. When i watched Adeles video i decided to note down my inital thoughts and feelings and will present them in a wordle: 

Location Shots

Inspiration for back cover

When searching for a tree for the basis of out back cover we came across this image which inspired us to create our theme that covers all our music video, cd covers and tour poster. From the beginning of this project my group has wanted to use nature to show the isolation and purity of the young lovers romance. We feel that this image represents these themes perfectly and is an extremley beautiful image that will attract the audience. The image of birds flying towards the tree could symbolize freedom, peace and serenity and this is the atmopshere we wanted to surround the characters with in our video and the use of nature as our video background looks stunning.

Back CD Cover

When researching for our CD covers and tour poster for an acoustic artist I was intrigued by the use of natural imagery being used, a prime example of this is Jason Mraz:

The use of natural imagery is usually linked to the acoustic genre which suggests that this will attract listeners as just from seeing this tour poster they will know the type of music that Jason Mraz is involved in. This tour poster made me aware of how important it is to show what type of genre the artists music is. So when creating our tour poster i suggested we also use an asbect of nature, this lead to our main central image being an oak tree. The oak tree is a symbol of power, this helped  us convey that we think Bellia Diem will be a success in the music industry. Also the Oak tree is a sacred old tree so this could suggest that Bella diem are going back to the old music roots with the songs they produce, they are not trying to be a modern band.

Throughout all our media products we have used birds as a continous theme. We thought by doing this fans of Bellia Diem will look for this symbol and it will help to promote merchandise.

The use of the colour red makes our media products look striking and powerful, it draws attention to our covers. It also provides a contrast to the black and white effect which makes it stand out even more.

The song titles that we use are very significant to our artist. We included very short titles as when researching song titles from acoustic artists we noticed that they were very short, abstract and complex e.g.Laura Marlings album 'Alas i cannot swim' mainly contained song titles of one or two words- 'Ghosts', 'Shine' and 'Old stone'. This could suggest the simplicity of the artists music which links to the simple nature of acoustic music.