Task 11- Video Games album Born to Die CD print: Creation of CD

This is my CD layout for the album which I used the song 'Video Games' from for my production video. The front cover of the album shows the protagonist with flowers in the background. I felt this image was the best suited to be the front cover as its recognisable to the production video as one of the scenes show her within amongst the flowers. In addition, the floral garden scene is one of the main focuses of the production. The image is very light which another reason why I choose it, I also enhanced the light by using ‘Pic monkey’ making the image more dreamy.



Text larger and placed at the bottom of the CD






When deciding on what font to use I choose 'Cardo' the same I used for my poster and the same colour of white, I did this as I wanted a continuing theme throughout. The CD needed to have the name of the album 'Born to Die' and the name of the artist 'Lana Del Rey' on the cover. I experimented with where to place the information. I placed the test at the bottom of the page however as its in white it blends in with the white roses on the picture. Therefore I found it more effective when I placed some of the font at the top and some at the bottom of the cover. The spreading of the information made it easier to read.

Text slightly smaller and less bold, spread out  

Two of the images used on the CD are emerges of two images together. I did this by using the editing software 'Adobe premiere'. The image to the right shows one of the images used, I overlaid a London shot of a sign and a zoom in of a rose in the floral garden. I felt it was important to include merged images as its shows the mergences of the different locations in the music video into one. In, addition I used 'Pic monkey' to soften the image making it more light and dreamy. I felt it was important to quote lyrics from the album onto the images for the CD layout making it recognisable to the artist. Therefore, I quoted lyrics from Lana's song 'Summertime Sadness'.

The back cover of the CD layout includes; all the songs on the album, copyright information, record company logos, as well as a barcode. I included all these conventions to make it look like a realistic CD back cover.