CD cover - trial run

Today we finished our CD cover for our music video 'She Moves In Her Own Way' by The Kooks. We wanted the CD cover to link to our band website so we took into account colour, images and font when designing it. We carried out an audience survey on whether they liked it or if improvement needed to be made. 84% of the people we asked thought that it was the perfect CD cover for the band and genre of music. The other 16% also liked the CD cover however they thought more colour could be added to the front cover. We took this feedback into careful consideration and decided to add a slight brightness effect to the front cover. We are extremely happy with our trial piece and here is our CD cover below.

Website decisions

Within our group we had some disagreement on our ancillary products (website and CD cover). Myself and Dominic created one set and so did Molly and Misha. We could not choose between the two so decided to carry out an audience survey to see which they preferred. They came to the decision that they could not choose between the two. This lead to the decision of us submitting the one we felt was the best. Me and Dominic chose to stick with our ancillary products and they chose to stick with theirs.

CD cover research

When researching the style of CD cover we wanted to use we took the time to look in depth at some of The Kooks previous albums to see the style on genre we wanted to create when producing our final design. Below are some examples of previous CD covers.

  

Filming

During the half term week in February, we carried out the remaining filming in which we needed to be able to give our group the best chance of finishing our music video in time. The filming took place in a local nature reserve as we wanted to show the love between the two main characters (Dominic Collins and Izzy Hampson). However we also wanting to follow the funny genre we applied when filming in the DCAS studios, so we included a variety of shots where the two of them were playing around. When viewing over our footage when returning to school, we decided to use some of the extracts in our music video, because as a group we thought viewers would enjoy this type of content more than just having romance all of the way throughout.