Rough Cut DVD Cover

Our Rough Front cover, Spine and Back Cover:



The feedback on our DVD cover was mixed in places. Some of our audience liked how it was plain and simple on the back, some thought the front was too plain. However, this was the style we were going for, to try and successfully promote the music video. Many of the criticisms were, that there was not enough diversity on the front of the cover. So we will change it so that it will be a large main image that incorporate different images that represent the band and our music video.
We were then told that the cardboard background for the title of ‘Forest of Morals’ has to be taken as an original picture due to it being classed as ‘cheating’ by extracting images from the internet. We will therefore take our own picture of ripped cardboard to replace it.


Our Rough Inside cover:




The audience really liked the inside of the cover due to the picture we used in the background. The image is very random but gets the point across that it is a different band. It’s characterised as Indie. The picture is of my feet in the mud whilst we were filming the performance element for our video, in the Quarry.

My feet made the writing hard to see because there is a lot going on in the background image. We were advised to take another image to make the writing more clear or put a cast shadow on. We didn't want to use another image so we tried to use the cast shadow effect. This made the image too dark and the writing was still unreadable. We therefore changed the font and the boldness of the writing making it clearer for the final cut. The audience then criticised the size of the bands title ‘Forest of Morals’, the letters weren’t big enough to stand out. we cut down the white background from the letters so we could enlarge them, making the letters standout more and catch the eye of the target audience. We then decided to put ‘Forest of Morals’ tour dates on the bottom right to make it more exciting and realistic.

The audience then criticised the images of the band on the right hand side. This was because the contrast and brightness had been turned up too much. We were also missing one of the band members and the audience realised this.

The audience didn’t like the font of the ‘Pretty Visitors’ writing because it didn't stand out or suit the genre of music. When therefore changed it to a bolder font which was a bit different than a normal font, giving it that Indie feel.