evaluation question 2 part 2

We used Photoshop to create the CD cover. Starting with a black background, we applied a suitable image (in this case the images of gingerbread men) and added this image to our CD cover. The reasong for using a black background is because it is very steriotypical of rock band album covers to have the majority of the album coloured black. The image of gingerbread men was used in particular because of the connotation of gingerbread men being something childish and innocent. However, the image displays how the gingerbread men are infact bullies and this puts a good twist to the image as bullying is something more evil and this also links in with the music video with this album as the topic is also about bullies.
We was required to create 4 tiles for our album, the 2nd tile would be where you would desplay some artwork. However it is common for albums to include the music lyrics included in the album, whe have done this also by adding the music video's lyrics to the 2nd to make use of the space available. we also added a second image that connects wityh the 1st tiles image of bully gingerbread men. And to do this i created on Photoshop the image of a headless gingerbread man as the bully victim.
The 3rd tile is the tile in which the cd would be placed. It is here that we added a different graphic of a guitar with flames. This is good for the album as it connecyts with the music genre and is a stereotypical image for rock music. We changed the colour of the flames to a blue/violet colour, this give the flames an "enchanted" look. We thought this would be a nice effect to the graphic.
The 4th tile is the Tile that required the most work. The 4th tile required to show the bar code and production companies. This lead to haveing to do more research into the band to find out the bands producers and production companies. After finding this out we then found logos of google images, and then opened them in Photoshop and applied them to the 4th tile. I also found a very nice image of a sinister looking girl on google images, with some editing of the graphic on Photoshop I applied it to the 4th tile. However, the 4th tile still looked plain so we then decided to aplpy the original albums song list to the back, this would be like any other album you would find on store shelves.

Posted By Dean