As part of the ancillary texts we (Ben and I) have chosen to do a promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promotion video with the choice of two out of the three below:- A website homepage for the singer
- A cover for its release as part of the digipack (CD/DVD package)
- A magazine advertisement for the digipack (CD/DVD package)
We have chosen to create a cover for the release of the album in a CD format, and a magazine advertisement. Below is the video of me (Alfie) creating the album and CD. I have created this in Photoshop CC 2017 and edited the screen recording in Premier Pro CC 2017.
Conventions of a CD cover:
- Simplistic colour scheme
- A title either including the band/singer's name or the title of the album
- On the back songs
Muse - Uprising:
It was released on August 2009, genre being glam rock and synth-rock.
The album work is fairly simple, with the band's name and the title of the album which is also a title of a song on the album. It does not contain a photograph of the band, breaking the conventions.
Royal Blood - Self-titled album:
It was released on August 2014, genre being garage rock, hard rock, stoner rock.
The album work was created by Dan Hillier's Fall, with the surreal view of reality and use of tainted imagery from Victorian etchings. Again, like Muse's album, the album cover does not include the band - breaking the conventions.
