2O1 - CD Cover steps 2 and 3

TGJ 2O1
Project:
CD cover and booklet design

A musician or band is producing their first CD. They have requested your expertise and creative design skills to help them design their CD.
Using the list provided, choose a name for your band and a title for the CD.

See the last posting on the blog for the first part of this project which includes choosing your name, style and personality, researching other bands and beginning some thumbnail sketches.

Step 2 – Brainstorming – Visual Collage
Define the target market. Who do you think will buy this CD?
Think about an age range, sex (if you think it matters), geographic location (urban, rural) and interests.
Make a list of 5 adjectives that describes not only the music, but also the image and personality of the group/artist. From here you can brainstorm any other words that come to mind. Fill a page with related words – anything that pops into your head!
Create a collage on a blank 8 ½” x 11” page on the computer.
Find images, illustrations, textures, colours, and type styles (for the words and the font)
Fill the page with these images and use this as your visual file to begin your CD design.
You will need to hand this in with your written paragraph defining the style of the music and the list of adjectives.

Step 3 - Thumbnail Sketches
You may have found it helpful to create a visual collage, or idea page to help generate some thoughts of how to best communicate the band’s image in a visual way.
Create some thumbnail sketches – a minimum of 10 of the front cover that plays with images, text and layout. Once you have decided on your image for the front cover, you should go out do the necessary photography. You must include at least one original photograph on your front cover. You can include more, but one is the minimum.
Think about a colour scheme and always keep UNITY in mind when creating your design.

DUE: Please post this collage and hand in your brainstorming page and thumbnail sketches by the end of class on Wednesday March 25, 2009. Thursday and Friday will be reserved for shooting – unless you hand in your thumbnail sketches earlier!