Specific research into CD Disk Covers

Another section of the Digi Pack is the actual CD, which needs to be produced. I have researched the CD covers of the main album I have been basing the album cover on, which is Rihanna. The CD covers contain the same themes as the outer case which creates continuity which is what we would like to achieve in our work.

We have already decided that our CD disk and the whole digi pack will have strong continuity throughout to be sure that it links well with our music video. The main themes on the digi pack are black and white with a slight impact of colouring with a red 'A' on the front cover which resembles Alice's first initial. We want the artists name and album name on the CD disk as this proves good continuity.

The first cover I looked at was from Rihanna's 'Talk That Talk' album which contains the same letter 'R' on the front album case, however it has been tilted to the side. It works well however this CD looks too difficult to create especially due to our limited ICT programmes.

I then began to look at other types of CD's that Rihanna has produced and came across her 'Good Girl Gone Bad' album which contained the CD seen below. I like the use of a plain black background and this would link back to CD case, and the CD looks simple yet it looks professional. By using the name of the artist and the album name on the CD gives strong continuity which we will have on our CD disk.

After looking closely at both of these CD disks I will now go on to create our CD disk for our digi pack. I will try to incorporate ideas from both of these covers into our disk and prove this by comparing them as I produce them.