CD cover designs

About the CD cover design ( extra info):

• The blurb with the text 'Not Giving In' is meant to be a bright yellow. This represents crime scene tape and is meant to create a link with the interrogation room in the music video and hinted at in the CD cover.
• The second blurb on the CD cover where it says 'Scott, Fiona, Rachele' will be changed to 'Frames' when we come to create the real product. The background to the writing is meant to be reminiscent of Police tape, once again to suggest to the audience the interrogation room.
• The back cover illustration is meant to show the main singer moving/spinning around. I was thinking the middle one could be still whilst the two at the sides would be shot using Fast Shutter Speed (15-20). This would express the freedom that the main singer is feeling relative to the others.
• The illustration across from the front cover shows a close up of three of the characters who feature in the video ( main singer at the front, interrogation girl and boxer man at the end). The girl in the middle has smeared lipstick across her cheek.
• I decided to use the fence behind them because it could illustrate the way in which they are sitting on the fence between giving in to pressure and being strong.
• I thought we could use the image of the clock from the interrogation room in the space where the CD will be placed. I thought this would work because when people look at the CD in the cover they see it and think the background is plain but when they remove the disc they find out what is hidden underneath. 

Another idea for the front cover of the album:

• The idea behind this front cover design came to me because our music piece manifests a lot of emotion through the struggle of not giving in to stress. Eyes are said to be the 'windows to the soul' and it is often the case that people can tell when something is wrong with someone by looking in their eyes. This made me think of creating a cover of the artist's eye and inside the eye is the title of the album and who it is by. This idea and concept by itself would challenge the stereotype cover designs for disco pop genre CD. However, another idea I had for this was that the eye could be peering through the background of the artist enough to see the title of the CD and the creators, or layered on top.
• The other idea I had for the eye as the front cover was to replace the iris with one of the locations or with something that has featured in the music video ( plus the name of the album and the creators.)