This cover was created as a practice, following a few of the guidelines set by the other covers we have analysed below. The programs used to create this were, Serif Page Plus and Paint. Firstly, we have the name of the band at the top of the front page as well as the rear, both in the same font. We chose this because it was common of other covers and we felt that it would be a safe choice. The fonts style is an old style tablet script which is iconic of old tales and stories of folklore – which coincidently the band has been slightly influenced by. The font is white, which works well in contrast to the black to help it stand out. However, doesn’t work on the front page (so will need to think about this for our main front cover). This font continues to the bottom of the page where it reads ‘The Unseen’ which is the name of their latest single. This instantly tells fans that it’s a newer DVD making it more appealing. For the background image, we have used an image of the band all standing together. This image was taken around ‘Mikes’ house while filming the rest of our music video. This image works quite well because the quality was good enough to allow us to slightly stretch it to make it fit perfectly. One thing we could change next time is the scene behind the band. The fence that runs through the back of the picture blends in with the bands clothes, not making them stand out as much as they could. On the back of the cover below the name of the band is a smaller font which is slightly on its side. This is what Kerrang! Said about the band and we thought it would be a good idea to include it as promotion. Below this we have our track list, using a slightly different font but using the same colour as the name of the band to show importance and to tie it all together. To the right hand side of the rear cover there are a few images of the band members which have been altered with a feathering effect to make them blend in. This is rather common of band covers to have all the band members on the back; this is why we chose to replicate it. Below the images, we have a bar code which was created on paint and an advisory label, which is mainly found on CD’s however, we have seen them used on DVDs too, so we took a picture of a metal Cd and then cropped on paint. This cover looks believable, although we feel (now looking at it) that there is a lot more we could have done to it. We will take everything we have learnt through creating this to help us develop our final design and take into consideration everything we have missed and a few of the things that didn’t work as well as we planned.
