I had to come make the front and back cover and Aiden and Oscar each had to make 2 CD inserts. They used the still’s we’ve had from earlier but I wanted to stick to the idea of having a simple cover. Teachers kindly helped me to develop the old idea and design the final covers; I had to get rid of the knife, flowers and the tree. This had changed for a more minimalistic look with the title and artist shown in red in the top right corner and just a mask in the middle removing the knife and flower.

As you see on the picture above, this was the first cover I made but on the final cover, I had to change almost everything. So I started with a picture of sky for the background, then I added a new layer and I put the mask on it. Then I changed the opacity of the mask so it’s just slightly visible and have a ghostly look to it and I positioned it right in the centre so half of the mask goes on the back and half on the front cover. Then I added the title and artist’s name on top right of the poster with a red font to stand out from the black and white background. We had decided to go for a black and white look with red font and so enhanced all of our images so that they were cohesive. This also was similar to “Sin City” style. Anyway so after all the texts on the poster I added the band’s logo, websites and songs. The final product was simple but effective.

We were asked to record everything we did from the start to the finish so we can put all the steps on our blog so the technically here’s exactly how I achieved the final poster. First I had to log into Mac to be able to use adobe Photoshop CS3 because the windows had the element and I find that slightly limited and I’m used to work with full version. So on Photoshop I opened the template for the CD cover and I used a picture of sky as the background but it was in colour so I changed the picture to grey scale and it looked very shiny and unrealistic so I added the noise filter to the picture to make it more pixelated and CD cover style. Then I changed the contrast on the picture and made it slightly darker so the mask stands out more.

To add the font I played with the size and position of it then I added a shadow to all the text so no matter what colour they are and what’s underneath them they will still stand out over the black shadow. And for the final touch I cropped the artist’s logo from their previous poster and added it to mine with a slight reflection under it. Final picture was made out of 6 layers.

We originally hadn't planned for the front cover to be black and white but for the sake of cohesion we did. For the inside of our sleeve we decided to input the details of who would have produced, arranged and mixed our album if it had ever been released into stores. Two of our images inside were of two of the criminals as they are a main part of the whole campaign and these two images were stylized using "Dark Strokes" on Photoshop which made the contrast brighter and made it look more like art although still showing realism and grittiness. For the inside we chose to write on each picture a small phrase relating to anti-crime such as "walk to the light" which is written in red so that they are noticeable and emphasised immediately. To keep with the cohesion of the artist we had to find the logo used by Roni Size and add it to our sleeve, which was placed on the inside in the top left corner.

We also changed it slightly so that it would fit our style.Lastly we came up with the idea for the magazine advert together, Oscar and Aiden were writing the quotes from magazines, website address and availability of the song and I was designing and bringing their ideas on the screen. We changed the font size and style for each line to make it look more efficient but the main black and white background didn’t change and the red font was still the same colour. I played a bit with the style of the main title but for the rest of the text I just added shadows to make it more visible over the lighter areas.