CD Cover

Idea's for CD cover

Drake - Thank Me Later

This CD cover of Drake was our first idea because a lot of his songs talk about life. We chose this particular CD cover because he is looking up, as though he is looking for an answer. On this cover it says 'Thank Me Later' which is on a few of his CD Cover's, this showing that it's his quote. We could use a quotation of our own for our CD cover.

Lady Sovereign - Public Warning

We chose this CD cover of Lady Sovereign because this gives her a rebel image. This was an idea because her name stands out clearly and the image of her on the right is very big. On our CD cover this gives us the idea that we could have the 2 main performers, their name's or the title of the song standing out.

Lil' Wayne CD Cover

This CD cover of Lil Wayne was a good idea because of the use of colour. Lil Wayne has specifically chosen purple and red as the colours to stand out. Red being danger and purple being wealth. The way he has 'Fear' on one eye and 'God' on his eye's makes him look like a strong man as he is giving a powerful message.

2Pac - Living In Paradise

This CD cover of Tupac Shakur was our last idea as he died in 1996 he was an inspiration to many. This CD cover is very powerful as he is no longer alive, him looking up to the sky and the cover saying 'living in paradise' is now contradicting the fact he can no longer do either. But this cover can tell people that by taking the right path in life you can end up in paradise, which relates to our music video as it has a lot to do with taking the right and wrong path in life.

Our songs original cover

This is the original cover to our song, although it does not have a picture of Lil' Wayne on it, it still mentions the song is featuring him. We chose not to do something familiar to this because this gives of a bad message compared to ours, as it uses dark colour's and red writing. The colour red represents danger, evil and death. There are some similarities from this cover to our video as most of the background is black, showing an urban affect, the only lighting in the cover is on the main artist.

First Front Cover Draft

This was our first draft of a CD cover, to create this photo we downloaded a still image from Google. With this image, took it to the green screen and we positioned ourselves on how we thought would be appropriate. With the use of the equipment we had, the way we positioned ourselves was due to the television in front of us that showed us how the picture would look. The picture is in a graveyard in which we are standing/sitting, beside an angel looking for an answer from God. The reason we took this picture off Google was because we decided as a group it would be disrespectful actually going into a graveyard and taking pictures of other people's loved ones.

Second Front Cover Draft

This was our image for the second draft of our CD cover, as a group we chose and decided that the first draft for our CD cover was too basic and that we could produce another one with more meaning into the image to reflect back onto our music video. We only believe this to be a much effective picture than the first draft because this was actually taken in real-world settings. The first draft was taken in green screen which we thought looked artificial. Also it has a lot more lighting and just looks more efficient for a CD cover.

Final Front Cover

This is our final CD cover, we decided to not use the previous drafts because it lacked originality and didn't really tell a story whereas this CD cover represents the theme of 'children', this type of retrospective theme is used to bring back memories from when the artists were kids, thinking back on how things could've changed. Also most of the image is in black and white but the actual artists in colour. We done this to make sure us artists stood out. We have also sized the cover by it's professional size which is 12 by 12 cm. What also is professional about this cover is that it has the 'parental advisory' feature on it.

Final 1st Inner Cover
This is our final inner cover, we have decide to use the background picture as a road symbolising the 'road of recovery' and how The Game turned his life artound into the right path. We have also inserted a lyric from the song to link it with the picture. To add, we have inserted a quote from 'The Game' himself, the quote is a positive one which teenagers may listen to as he a role model.

Final 2nd Inner Cover
This is our final second inner cover, we have used exatcly the same theme but a quote from Lil' Wayne. Another difference is we have re-arranged the picture of the artist, we have inserted him on the right hand side to be different.

Final Back Cover

For the back cover, we decided to keep the theme of retrospectivechildren memories. This picture shows how us artists are creating an image of 'looking back at our lives' and thinking on how 'crazy' life was in the 'hood'. We also kept the black and white/colour theme which makes us stand out. We have given this a professional look by adding images at the bottom such as the labels symbols, the copyright information and the barcode.