Creating the CD disk

As well as creating the front, back and spine of the album we also have to produce a CD disk to go inside the album case. We decided as a group to produce a simple disk which relates to both our music video and our Digi pack. As the majority of our Digi pack is black we decided to have a black disk with white writing. The font used is the exact same as the front and back cover which conveys our continuity throughout the ancillary tasks. 

After spacing out the text using the 'Character' box on In Design I was able to place the text at the top of the CD so it would be the first aspect of the disk that the audience would see. We used an extra white circle in the middle of the CD to break up the dark colour.

We prominently based our CD disk layout around the Rihanna 'Talk That Talk' CD disk as we thought this layout suited our theme best. The dark background matches our photographs and other ancillary task and by using the same fonts we are able to convey strong continuity. We have placed the name of the album and artist name in the same place as Rihanna however we have switched the two to make the album name more prominent as this is the main focus of the album and our music video. We also added the producer information and broadcasting details at the bottom of the CD covers copyright laws, this is a direct link to real media products.   

This is our final CD disk:

The plastic behind this CD disk will be clear with no colour because we do not want anything to distract the attention away from the CD disk - we also feel as a group that this would be the most professional outcome on our final product.

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.