Shortlist of Artist Name, Album, Song List etc

During class, we had to gather and decide the artist name, album, song list and some other stuff. It was thought that this is a good idea because, it saves time when the group collectively decides then when the individual spends forever and a day trying to come up with a 'fantastic' album name.
After our discussion,  our decision has come to :


Artist name: Professor D
Album Title :Chemical Reaction
Song list : this will be taken from Devlin's Album


1. 1989
2. Brainwashed
3. Days & Nights
4. London City
5. Marching Through The Fog
6. Let It Go
7. Yesterday’s News
8. Community Outcast
9. Runaway
10. Our Father
11. Finally
12. Dreamer
13. World Still Turns
14. End Of Days


I have not decided what the colour scheme will consist of YET, but have an idea which will include a range of urban colours like browns, reds and some blacks
Date of release: 12.3.12
website release and name : www.professord.com

Bad Student Digipacks

Good Student Digipacks

What makes this a good digipack is it conveys the artists personality

Bad digipacks

Good digipacks

From this cd cover i like the positioning of the artist and text thats the layout i plan to use for my album cover but i'm not a big fan of the colour scheme despite the bright yellow text it still doesn't grab attention the way i want my album cover to. The black makes it look rather dull and thats not how i want my artist to be represented. There ae images in the background but they're too dark to see if i do decide to use other images in the video i would want them to be obvious and meaningful to potential customers.

On This Meek Mill mixtape cover i love the background, colour scheme, detail. The connotations of the smoke flowing from the artist mouth is considered cool in the hip-hop genre to young people our target audience. But it also represents a dreamlike state relating to the name of the mixtape dreamchaser. I also like the font and the opacity level because they are clear but not too distracting.

Example of Good & Bad Student Work

 

 Personally I felt this Digi-pak was very interesting and done to a high standard because of the unique personality which is shown through the image and editing. Below are the positive :

* Use of expression of the face shows personality.

 * Minimal use of colours 

* Minimal use of fonts

*Good Mis en scene- Hoods are associated with genre Grime/Rap artists 

*Clear fonts

*Correct use of industry logo's

* Perfect framing (image not stretched)

 * Colours match

* Unique image

*  Parental Warning 

* Artist name in BOLD CAPITALS

* No unnecessary effects

ERM

 I felt this  this advertisement had both positive and negative effects but overall the bad overcame.

Positive :

*Good idea of image (angle)

* Good idea of lights in the background

*Image is not stretch

Negative 

* Too many use of fonts

*Too many font size

* Not creative enough

* Dull colours

* Wrong use of colours

* Too many different font edits

*Sigh*

I felt this Digi-pak was poor and done to a low quality in maybe a few hours.

Negative 

* Text on top of Artist
* Poor use of colours
* The colours clash
* Poor use of fonts
* Fonts show no information on the Artist
* CD has no text
*Text is un-readable
* Front cover is empty
* Spine looks empty
*Too many different fonts
* Wrong use of edits