Our final completed advert, CD cover and inserts

Finished pictures after being photo shopped.

This is the CD advert we created, using a picture of the band as the main focus therefore making it clear who the band is that we are promoting. Throughout all our print work, we have a cohesive colour scheme, the two main colours being black and green/grey. We used the paintbrush tool to create the 'paint splat' effect in the corner of the advert. We used this effect to make a link with the name 'Splutter' as it gives the impression of 'spluttering' and therefore having 'splats' across the page.

This is the front cover and the back of our CD album. We used the picture of the guitar and amp, as key iconography for our music genre. We used a photo of the band on the back cover to remind the buyer that the band are the creators of the songs on the CD. The name we have chosen for the album is 'White and nerdy' which is a postmodern reference to the song of the same name by Weird Al Yankovic, well known for his songs that promote humour and comedy, much of which has influenced our video and print work, so this is a key reference to make. It is also very relevant to our project as a whole, because our main character is white, and we've portrayed him 'nerdy'. We used the paintbrush tool to create the splat effect, and made the brush much larger to create the effect along the bottom of our front cover.


This is a picture of one of the double paged inserts we made. It depicts the band playing, making direct links to the music genre once again, for example playing in a basement/cellar, with dark lighting.

We put the name of the band in the top right corner, so it can easily be found, we also put some information in the bottom left corner, such as the fact that they are an unsigned band and that they record all their own songs. This makes the band seem more genuine, and the audience would be more likely to relate to them as people. One of the effects we used when making this insert was the smoke paintbrush tool, which gave the picture on the right a mysterious and powerful effect. We also made one of the pictures black and white, whereas the other is in colour, this could show two different sides of the band, the dream and the reality, which is cohesive with our second insert.

Our second insert is cohesive with our first insert, following the idea of contrasting fantasy with reality. On the left hand side of the insert we see our main character sitting in his room playing on his laptop, this would be how he is generally perceived. However on the right hand side we have depicted him as being right into the action, how he sees himself in his own 'fantasy gaming world'. The effects we used on this insert were the paint brush using the colour white to 'fade' the picture of our 'nerd' into the animation picture of 'call of duty' and I set a photo from the Internet as the background as a basis for our insert. The right hand side of our insert also has darker connotations, which we have managed to portray through the lighting we used, connotations of violence and being trapped. This makes our CD seem edgy and extreme.