Cd analysis.

CD analysis.

I think my CD is quite suited to it's genre(Indie) because of the front cover, the front cover is in the style of Indie, I chose things that I think indie/hipster people would like, i.e I chose a record because Indies stereo-typically like the old things(vintage) also like the Polaroid picture effect, I also chose to use an electric guitar on my front cover because I wanted to show roughly what the music would be like and again what is associated with other indie bands and things Indies may listen to. The name of the band and the album name I also think fits, the name tells the listeners the genre straight away 'indie revolution' which I think works well because it narrows an indie's choice down.. and vintage (the album name) because again stereo-typically indies like old vintage things.

However I don't think that the name of my band is very good although it is straight to the point I think it could have been better although I did find it hard to come up with a name so I picked it on a band name generator. I'm also not too sure on the colour, because the Polaroid is white I think maybe the background colour could have been a bit darker so it stood out more, I could have also used more bright colours to get my CD cover to really stand out especially if it was going to be sold in shops it would need to have something that would make people attracted to it but then again it may not have fitted in with the genre of my CD.

I have learnt a fair few things in this project of making the CD, first I found out how to do colour splash which I used on this CD, it's not too obvious but I had changed everything to black and white and just had the shoes in colour I think this made it stand out a little bit more and gave it a bit more of an original effect to it, i have also learnt how to edit things effectively.  

If I had all the time and money in the world I would have took a lot more time so that it was even more suited to the target market, I would have maybe selected a better band name and took different images that suited the target market more than the ones now and the genre of my band. Also I would have done the pictures in a studio so that I could get a white background, I may have even took pictures of people in an indie type clothes. 

I don't think I could really compare my CD cover to many others, mine is quite different, most indie bands will have a photograph of themselves on the front cover although I have chose to use objects instead that symbolise my genre. My back cover was very much inspired by Rizzle kicks, I thought their back layout went well with my front cover because it was very simple yet looked quite busy. I also liked the simplicity of their back cover, i don't think it reflects their type of music because they're up beat but it works well as a contrast between their music and cover.