Friday, 2 July 2010

Digital booklet design

In relation to our music production synergy, part of our task is to produce a digital booklet for the CD for our single, 'Red Shoes'. We decided to produce an initial idea for Kirsty MacColl's album that features this single, titled 'Tropical Brainstorm', which we conducted over Tuesday and Wednesday's Media lessons. Therefore, we wanted to combine our ideas from our produced poster and our pilot ideas for our video, combined upon our CD.
Here is the front cover for our initial ideas:


  1. The front cover shows our 'artist' in the bottom right hand corner, with a neon brain in their head, to add to a cartoon effect, hinting at the artist being fun. They have a speech bubble coming out of their head, with the words 'TROPICAL BRAINSTORM', in bold font. A thunderbolt is striking through the bubble, paralleling with the CD title, with synergy found in the background with black and white polka dots.
  2. On the reverse cover - being of the back cover - showing synergy again with the same image of the artist in two eras shown. She has been placed on the right hand side and left hand side of the box, likewise to the poster. The same font as the poster representing her name 'Kirsty MacColl' also follows, in fancy italics, to emphasize a formal, jazz-like song. A kiss sign can be found next to the font, likewise to a lip print. This will be pink, to fall alongside to the similarity to the 'present-era' in the video. Therefore, a combination of both eras can be found on the CD's front. Synergy can also be found with the background, again shown as black and white polka dots, achieving our main goal of similarities between them music productions. To fall alongside the stereotype of CD covers, we aimed to include various other song titles, which fall between the two images of the artists, featuring approximately 13 tracks. These would be in clear, possibly fancy font, bold from the background. Also in relation to typical CD covers, we will include a bar code to make our digital booklet appear more realistic.
  3. The binder of the CD is also typical of other CD packages, with the artist's title and the title of the album falling alongside the strip, being likewise to the font featured on the cover.
  4. On the other strip - which would flap upwards and cover the opposite side of where the CD disk would be placed. This is also typical of digital booklets, which features a 'thank you' from the artist, being personal to them so that they can relate to the fans. This would be written in fancy font also, with the heading being bold to highlight it. Also, we would repeat the kiss print to add to synergy.

  5. This is the reverse of the front case, when laid out. The two blank covers on the left would be black and white polka dot, with it folding up to add a unique twist to the CD. The 'thank you' would be revealed when this flap is revealed up.
  6. The opposite side would be where the CD is held. Black and white polka dots would cover the background, emphasizing synergy. If this were a real case, when the CD is taken out, a photograph of a pair of heels would be revealed. This adds to the Kirsty's main single that we are focusing on 'In These Shoes' - as well as being the original heels that we will use within the video. Therefore, synergy can be found once more again.
  7. On the binder of the inside of the CD, we have repeated the image of the lip print, in a small pattern over and over.

Overall, these images combine well, all being recognised upon the poster and our ideas for the video for the single 'In These Shoes' that we are to film tomorrow, over the weekend. We produced the final idea for this digital booklet yesterday, which is in the progress of being scanned now.

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