Thursday, 7 January 2010

CD cover "Notebook" idea

With the idea of Chris Cohen's lyrics telling a story to "Comfort and inspire", the prospect of designing a cover as a book is an appealing idea, and it can have a personal touch in many ways to create an indexical CD cover.
-idea of taking my original photography files from the computer to then placing them as photos (printed off on print paper) to tape into a sketchbook themed booklet. I feel this idea would be appealing to the audience and can have a feeling of creativity and purpose.
-“Flourishes” can be added for the "personal touch" from the artist and could be such as notes that I can hand write that would appear that the artist himself has done. This could be in relation to any tributes, photographs, lyrics.
-Front page of the booklet inside could have a front cover of an old notebook being labelled “Chris Cohen – If you only knew”.
-Could also use a picture of a hand opening the front cover of the book as the front cover of the booklet. This could encourage the audience to look inside the booklet.
The Notebook itself could be of a brown leather type patterm, that Kaiser Chiefs have used for "Employment", showing therefore that the CD cover idea would prove popular with the audience of our similar genre as "Employment" has sold around 3 million copies.
With photos stuck into the book, this could show pride by the artist in the photo and what it represents, which could be explained by a flourish of a note next to it, and to connect this experience and what it represents with the audience.

NOTE: If I choose to use the outside cover of a book (hard cover) to use as the cover theme of the CD I should think about either handwritten fonts or old-fashioned/medieval fonts. These fonts could either give a feeling of wisdom (medieval) or personal and original (handwritten).
To produce this cover, i have bought a sketchbook with the desirable cover. Within this, i could stick in edited photography through photoshop to fold out, or to use graphics such as a page with a blank photo frame to photoshop a photo into the blank space and stick into the book. This way, i will still have the authentic look to my CD cover and also by doing this, this would show i can use IT skills to produce my CD cover, and should allow my CD cover to be more appealing and polished and access higher marks.
By sticking pages of the book together, i can create the desired number of panes and if possible, embed the CD into the pages. I feel this would be very attractive and creative idea to my audience.

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