DVD Cover Evaluation

The way that our DVD cover has turned out has exceeded my expectations in the sense that the overall look of the final image relates well to our genre and band of choice, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The DVD cover that we produced on Photoshop is very similar to that of our first design and therefore shows that we thought a lot about our plan before we began to take the photos that we needed for the cover. This is an improvement over my work last year and I wasn't as organised as I should have been. As a result, I have found that the work took a lot less time to do as i knew what I was doing before i had started.

The use of colour is affective in the way that we have used black and red as our main colours. the black background resembles that of other RHCP albums and covers. The red writing is there to represent the fire that is incorporated in a lot of their work as this relates to the bands name. We decided to wear mainly blue/black clothing in order to create that cold feeling in contrast with the red lips of which we had enhanced. The shadows around the photos of the band members allow them to stand out a bit more. However, we did have problems with getting a shadow underneath each of the figures and believe that if we had more time then we could have added this effect in and this would have made the editing more realistic as a result. To form a background for the red lips, we duplicated the layer and put an effect onto this layer that contrasts with the red. It looks a lot like a thermal image camera and so even though the feeling of the colours used is cold, the connection to the fire and heat is still there.

We changed the fact that the DVD was of the Red Hot Chili Peppers live at Hyde Park due to the fact that we had a track list at the back of the By The Way album and so decided due to this fact that we would make the DVD a compilation of various performances of songs from this album. 

Red Hot Chili Peppers DVD Cover - FINAL

Front and Back

Inside

Red Hot Chili Peppers DVD Cover - Plan

Front and Back

Inside

We are going to use base colours such as black for our background and use red to contrast with this black. This felt like a good choice to make due to the connotations of the red on the black such as darkness and love which suits the Red Hot Chili Peppers well. The colours also represent the name of their band being 'Red Hot'. We will take a picture of my mouth open with my tongue sticking out and enhance the lips to make them redder. The three photos of us as the band will be taken separately and then edited onto the tongue using photoshop. The back of the DVD cover will continue to have the black background but have the red RHCP logo on the back as this is an iconic feature of the bands promotion technique because all the fans of the band know that logo. This will be drawn ourselves on photoshop in order to reduce any ways of us breaking any copy write laws. We are going to follow the theme through onto the inside cover using red and black as our main colours and three photos of the band members on the left of the cover.