CD Promo Pack

This is our finished CD Promo pack. we included front and back cover along side with an insert cover inside the CD. As you can see we also included the spine of the CD that we decided to add some artwork on. When looking at other CD albums from the rock/metal genre, we noticed that alot of them had artwork, pictures of the band but most importantly, some were quite complex and so we decided to have this for our own CD promo pack.



Here is the front cover. Much like the back cover, we went with the dark background but, whilst studying different album covers, we noticed alot of rock/metal album covers were either artwork, or pictures of the band. For this reason, we decided to challenge the convention and use both for our front cover. We went with black stormy sky with lightning as it was in coherence with the album name which was "Lightning Fear". We liked the idea and chose it. The picture we chose was of only two band members. We chose this picture because the guitarist was looking back as to say he was looking behind him at the stormy, lightning filled sky and the drummer appears to be stunned and "Confused" with what is going on which again relates back to the album name. We thought as well that the picture itself was "Confusion" and gave the CD cover more of a "Metal" feel to it. In the bottom left corner we put a little sign that says "Parental advisory" as to say that the CD contained explicit lyrics which is very common with rock/metal CD's.



This is the back cover of the CD. We went again with the idea of having the band in mid-shot of them playing the instruments as this again emphasized the professional and realists manner of the CD. We went with the dark background to give off the "Metal" look and vibe. We put on the back of the CD a bar code as well as statutory rights and a record labeling company to make the CD look professional and realistic. We wanted the back cover to look complex with the picture and the song titles however, we kept the cover nice and neat so the writing could be read, and the picture could be see.



This is the insert cover of my groups CD promo pack. We decided to go with a basic "Metal" background as we didnt want to use any imagas as we have already done that for the front and back cover and we wanted a variation of themes. We chose the idea of having the band members present with their names and job roles in the band to show who they were and what they contributed to the band and overal, to the CD. We kept to the dark background due to the "Metal" look and after researching CD albums, we found that our idea of having the band members present was done before but, most commonly on rock/metal CD albums. So we took the convention and went with this. We chose pictures of the band members playing to give it more of a realistic and proffesional manner.