Ancillary Task 1. Album Pack.

Front

Inside Front

Inside Back.

Disc Design.

Back.

This is the final design for the ancillary task 1- album pack.

The design includes the front cover that depicts an ancient, thorn like tree that is in flames with the band's name and album title. We also included a parental advisory label as some of the tracks contain swear words. For the inside front and back the design continues with black and white drawings of a guitar, drum stick and microphone which represent the band. Theses objects are being covered with thorn like branches that are similar to the tree design. These pages have no text on them as it was not necessary and there was no information to be placed there. For the CD design we kept it simple with a grey coloured background and a darker grey coloured capital 'R' that looks like a water mark. Finally on the back cover there is a drawing of a pocket watch which appears in our music video. This is also covered in thorn like branches. The back also has the nine album songs, a barcode, record company logo, contact details and copyright details.
The overall colour scheme for the album cover consists of black, grey, white and a dark green. This meets the codes and conventions of similar products as they are dark colours that connotes a dark and evil atmosphere which is also represented through the sound of the music. These colours also help with our overall theme of apocalypse and destruction. Finally the typography of the font we used for the album cover also keeps to the codes and conventions of the metal genre as they are Gothic or have very strong, sharp strokes.

Overall I am very happy with the design of the album cover as it is eye catching, has the theme that we wanted to create, whilst still having the correct information and overall conventions that makes it a metal genre product.