The Two Ideas
1. The first idea was to have the artist (Stenchman) hand pressing play on the turntables. This can be drawn and coloured by hand and then scanned into the computer and edited in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Using design package will allow us to be more creative and format the text etc.
2. The other idea we thought was to use every character involved in the music video and to display them in a grid. We will use a 3 by 3 grid with name of Stenchman being in the top left box, whereas the other 8 boxes will include a straight-on shot of the 8 characters with sad emotions. After thinking of this idea, we then looked for other CD covers that were similar, to see where we subconsciously got our idea from. When we looked around at various images, we discovered that our concept was very similar to that of the American sitcom show 'The Brady Bunch'. Please see the image below, similarly also with 9 boxes.
The image below is an interpretation of our idea for our CD cover. As we do not have the still shots yet, I have used the original pictures of The Brady Bunch family, just to show our idea of adding text to the image. As the image below is just a prototype, when it comes to creating our final product, the images will be of our eight characters involved in our music video.
Following this idea of 8 images in a grid/table, the clubnight 'Joyride' used a similar aspect in one of their flyers for their New Years party by getting all of their djs to pose. A Polaroid image is taken of them which gives a gritty image of them. Their flyer is very informal whereas in our CD cover, the story behind the characters is much more serious of that of their party.
