CD Cover Research

To help give me inspiration for my own cd cover I decided to look at professional artists cd covers that were within a similar music genre to my group. A lot of them have a water or ocean theme to the imagery, this coincidentally fits in perfectly with my music video and the theme I was going to continue into the cd cover and website anyway. 

Although the majority of the covers include people on the front they do not make that persons identity really know as they are either blurred, facing the other way or underwater. The Everything Everything cd cover appears to be copying the previous Blur cd cover. 

At the bottom is the actually Alt-J cd case, this differs from the others in design and style. The case itself is different as is the fact the case does not have the band name or album name on it.  

From this I was able to apply some of these features to my own cd cover design. I kept the colour of the digi pack blue, in particular dull grainy blues as these represented the theme of the song, oceans, and also reflects the emotions in the music video. This created synergy with my music video and media product. I also kept the identity of the couple unknown on the front cover as I found in my research that the people on the front cover were often hidden in some way. I did use a image on the inside cover that shows the guys face as the scene it is taken from ties in with the drugs that appear next to it. 

(The bottom to images are the front cover and back cover, with the top images folding down to be on the inside)

Wix Going Live

My band website it now live and available for the public to view, although the sit is not completely finished and still has features that need to be changed it is necessary for my progress to be analysed.
So here it is,

http://christopherpanayi1.wix.com/mediastudiesaltjsite

Editing My Website

So far with my website I have put in a background that appears on all the pages, I have made the pages that I would like to include; home, news, band bio, music video, lyrics store, gallery, contact, soundcloud and social network links. I have not edited all of these pages yet, though most have been changed in some way.

I am currently unable to link the website as I have not published it making it live, the main reason for this is because it is unfinished. instead here are some screen shots of the site.

Photoshop Trial

I began to practice editing my images for the auxiliary task of digi pack and band website. I started with an image of a rustic boat, but have to remove and replace the writing and some people that are in the scene, by the left side of the boat. The image was taken during filming, it fits into the theme of the music video and the theme I am going to base the album called 'Ocean Noise'.

Before editing

 After editing

I like the location of the text on the boat, however I will try to give it the effect of actually being printed onto the boat as for me at the moment I don't think it looks as realistic. Although the sans serif font used does look very good and in keeping with the style of the band.

Wix Trial

Today I spent time in class using the website that I will eventually use for part of my auxiliary task. The site is easy to used and I was able to navigate through the setting and tools well. Because of this I decided to change my own personal blog from Blogger to Wix as Wix gives me a greater freedom with posting on new pages.

http://christopherpanayi1.wix.com/christopherpanayi#!home/mainPage