Other CD Conventions

I am interested in looking at the more linguistic side of our ancillary task. Rather than just looking at examples of other band/artist's CD covers, I thought it was important to look at the dedication & thank you pages and promotional information within other bands CDs.

 This is from the Maccabees album 'Colour It In'. For one, the design on the album relates to the title as it has the iconic image of the cartoon people, coloured in a child-like way, and this is carried on through the rest of the album, creating an individual image. This page is used for copyright purposes, with information about the producers and designers, credits to people involved, and also includes promotional information such as the band's myspace and website. At this moment, I am not sure what information we will need to include on our album cover, as nothing is actually copyrighted. But in terms of promotional information, I am really keen on making a small insert, as seen in this blog post.

 The Maccabees used a page to include a dedication in the album, as seen above. I think this is a nice idea but I don't think it would work within our CD because of the image we are trying to portray of Hewitson River, as we are playing upon the idea of him being self-obsorbed & miserable (much like Morrissey!)

This is a single from McFLY, who used a panel to promote an upcoming album. I think that if we were going to include an insert in our CD, then it should either include contact information such as twitter, facebook, myspace & a website, or details of a tour. I personally think that a panel in our digipack, or section of a panel, could be dedicated to Hewitson's social networks, and an insert could promote a tour, because this is a more common and conventional way of advertising.

In an earlier album, McFLY use polariod photos in their section of the album for 'thanks'. This part of a CD is a very common and quite an important part and something we should probably include. We could take inspiration from the polaraids used, as it relates to our 'old' theme and we could easily create polaroids on photoshop. It has a simple but effective look.

Jason Mraz's thanks is very lengthy and I don't think we should aim for something as long as this, but I like how the text is arranged around an image. We could use this for inspiration for both our back cover and our 'thank you' page.