How to make a cd cover by listenting to music

The university student describes how they made a cd cover as part of their project. They had to listen to music and draw abstract responses to the music. From this they had to create three cd covers. The project was divided into two parts.

Stage 1


In the first part they listen to music and and they had to take an A4 page and draw a simple visual language of what they heard. They could only do this by using simple elements of line, shape and colour. It had to be a non representational, abstract design and they could only use the 6 spectrum colours ( red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple ).

Below you can see the 4 visual responses after listening to the music.

• The first was a slow, smooth, soft and calm watery type song.
• The second song was a upbeat funky song.
• The third was a hard rough death metal rock song.
• Fourth was an electronic digital sounding song.

Stage 2
Then they had to discuss their results with their peers and brainstormed different ideals about what design they are going to choose and finally they chose to do a 3D design.
 
 
They decided to use one word to describe the type of music that the band played. They then used that word as the main piece on the front cover. They chose the word smooth for the calm music and the word rough for the heavy metal music and the word Digital for the electric music. They used the 3D programme Xara3D, photoshop and illustrator to create the CD cover.
 
 
In the final design below they decided to use the colours blue and green for the Smooth design, in the Rough design they have used the colour red and in the Digital they have used a bright coloured design.


 



I think it is interesting to compare the visual design to the final designs.



Website: http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/05/10/how-to-design-a-cd-cover-by-listening-to-music/

EVALUATION cd cover

The title of the CD cover is 'Let's go Party' and the images I have chosen to go on it are associated with young teenage girls and parties. I took these picture from internet then I used magic wand and rubber to make background disappear from the chosen things. I have chosen things like glasses, shoes, make-up, jewellery and a hand bag because young girls like to dress up like that when they are going to a party. There is also a glass of drink and a radio because these are things teenagers do when they go to the party. The main colours I used are black, pink and white. This is because pink is associated with girls, black to represent night time and white to show contrast. The words 'Let's go Party' are written on a front cover in red to make it stand out. I took the background from internet then I made a big and small circle with a rubber in there then I coloured the background.



For my back cover I drew pink purple bubbles to make flashy and funky background. I used music notes to look more of disco concept. The roses and bracelet are normally what girls wants and to show that girls loves cute stuffs. I filled song tracks with numbers with colors. The font I used in my tracks are stylish and bold to make it attractive and party concept. Normally the songs are disco style, it has rock, Hip-Hop and R'N'B genres to make it more funky and catchy songs.
I would say the teenagers and young girls to be the target audience. I used the name 'Falak Maqbool' for my own CD cover.
Promoting my first CD cover I would expect more people to recognize me and buy my CD so that I would be able to gain more fans and always entertain them in a good way.
For making my CD cover first I used A3 paper and drew in a roughly way so that I could see whether what kind of ideas I could get more. Later I used 'Fireworks' from computer to make it more attractive. I used various tools like pencil, colours, fonts magic wand and rubber to make exact CD cover I made in A3 paper. But some of the sketches didn't work out. So, I used pencil and colour to make it more of a disco comcept. Finally I finished my CD cover and filled it with funky colours. Now I just need to notice my target audience whether they find it attractive and funky or not.

Jay Sean album

The CD cover appeals to young people and the background compliments his posh suit. His hair cut looks fashionable because its short and shaped. His face is looking serious and his hand is covering which make him look thoughtful and which make his CD cover interesting. The writing he used on his CD cover is in lower case letters and his name is written clearly at the top. The title of the album is written underneath. AT the bottom is written name of the website.
Jay Sean's real name is kamaljit Singh Jhooti. He is a British pop and R& B singer. He is best known in the UK by his hit songs 'stay, ride it , stolen and tonight'. He released 2 albums which are 'my own way' in 2008 and 'me against myself' in 2004. Jay Sean was born in the Southall neighbourhood in London into an Indian family. His first digital single 'Ride it' was in late 2007 from his second album "my own way". Jay Sean wrote the song "deal with it" for his second album. His song was played over 120,000 radios in America which was one of the most played songs on America radios and was written by a European songwriter and even made him win the BMI songwritter awards.

Imran Khan

This is the cover of Imran khan album Unforgettable.
Source: The cover art can or could be obtained from the record label.

Article: Unforgettable (Imran Khan album)

Protion used: The entire cover: because the image is cover art, a form of product packaging, the entire image is needed to identify the product, properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image.

Low resolution: The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.

Purpose of use: Main infobox. The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone.The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for.Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the artist's providing graphic design services to music concerns and in turn marketing music to the public.

Replaceable: As musical cover art, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the music would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary.


Imran khan is a Pakistani he is bron in panjab and he is a panjabi singer from the Hague in Holland.
He lunched his latest album in 2009 which released in the UK and his album name is "Unforgettable". He start his career when he was twenty.


The CD cover features the singer Imran Khan with the title of the album 'Unforgettable' It looks like the protrail photograph of the singer has been sliced into 9 sections and put together to form one image. this allows to us see him at different angles mostly side shots of his face. His eyes are obsured by dark glasses. the background is black but the main image is slightly obscured with an oval and square shape which has writing in the middle but we cannot see what the writing says. White, red and blue are the main colours. The name of the singer is in white which makes it stand out and it is in block writing. The title of the album is also written in white but in thinner font.

I like the album cover because it is quite colourful and different to anything I've seen before. I think it is clever how his photograph is insections so that we see him from different angles. I think this cover would appeal to young peole because it looks modern. The album cover identifies the product well.

My first post for creative media

Hi

I'm Falak Maqbool.

I am stuying in Sidcup Christ the King: St Mary sixth form college. I am studying creative media diploma and my teachers are Frank, Brian, Mr Smith and Mandy. With Frank my first task is to research the process of designing and making a cd cover in. In Mandy's lession we have finished the artefact and analysing the package. We have found 4 cd covers and then answered the question. Now we are doing our own cd cover.We are creating music for Mr Smith, this is a background music to Batman movie. I am working on Brian's cd cover by taking photograph.