English oral task for functional skills

I have prepared this presentation on my work on 'artifact'. my task was to design the Cd covers for a new band. To do these I had to research on how to to design the Cd covers. I looked up on two different examples on process of designing Cd covers.

The first Cd cover on how to make a Cd covers:-
* need to scan or image preparation.
*can do cropping, resizing and converting RGB color.
*to make more creative could do like custom illustrating, retouching or a silhouette and later do typesetting.
*make plans and settings for Cd covers and finally make hard copy proofs to the digital proofers while mailing.
*the final touch is the finishing package of Cd covers and need to to be send to the target audience.

The second Cd cover is to:-
*using different visualisations on creating Cd cover.(listening to different sounds and creating layers out of it.)
*contrasting different layers and used the drawings to develop into Cd over and strongly reflecting the initial graphic designs.
*using 3D style to make more attractive and strong for the target audience.
*the worksheet of Cd cover is made a separate copy and start doing 3D letters into photo shop and continue doing illustrating the Cd cover.
*the final touch is the Cd cover which has different colours according to the feel of the cd covers.

Making an exact Cd cover for the blog, I drew the pictures and background on a A3 paper roughly to see whether there could be more ideas and designs for my final Cd cover. I used the simple concept of white and black roses to make it like one is evil and other good. Later, I thought it could be better if I changed the concept of roses into opposites meaning the white rose to be devil and black rose to be angel. I used these methods to make my target audience notice that some people have the personalities like these roses.

FRONT CD COVER

BACK CD COVER

EVALUATING MY FINAL CD COVER DESIGN

FRONT CD COVER

The title for my Cd cover is ' Angel & Devil'. I used ' MAGNETIC' for the band name. I used the word 'magnetic' for the band name because it means a strong, attractive power or charm. For making my Cd cover, I used fireworks to design it and the concept for my cover is rock genre. On my front cover, it shows the white and black roses with a blood-red background. The white rose represents the 'Devil'. White usually signifies fairness and purity but it can also have a darker and evil side. The black rose represents an 'Angel' to show black is not always bad and lonely but can have a gentle and softer inner side. I used the blood-red in the background to make it scary and dangerous. The reason behind this picture is some people are like these roses and are not always what they are expected to be. The font I used is simple to make it ordinary and the pictures have been sketched to make it realistic.

BACK CD COVER

As for my back cover, I used the same background but different visualisations. I used the concept of a devil's tail and an angel's wing on the side of the scroll where I filled the song tracks to make it a classic and ordinary style. In one of my tracks, I used the 'orchestra version' to make it unique and like a ballad as it is changes the rock version to softer music. The fonts I used in the songs are bold and stylish to make it ordinary but attractive.

I would probably say the target audience would be teenagers and who loves rock music. 'Magnetic' could be odd for a band's name but I used it because it means the personality of charm and power to people. As for the Cd cover I drew images in 'fireworks' using tools like pencil, rubber, magic wand, font and colors to make artistic and rough. I searched and used the background image from google to make it clean as well as adding darker colour.

Before making an exact Cd cover for the blog, I drew the pictures and background on a A3 paper roughly to see whether there could be more ideas and designs for my final Cd cover. I used the simple concept of white and black roses to make it like one is evil and other good. Later, I thought it could be better if I changed the concept of roses into opposites meaning the white rose to be devil and black rose to be angel. I used these methods to make my target audience notice that some people have the personalities like these roses.

'INTRODUCTION FOR TASK TWO'

Hi, I just finished my Task 1 and now I am starting to write a new post for Task 2 . In this Task 2, we need to create our own Cd design cover from 'FIREWORKS' OR 'PHOTOCOPY SHOP' for a new Lewisham Act. First, I need to plan how to create my first Cd design and do research in google for pictures and ideas to recreate from it. The main purpose is to create my own music album cover and I need to make it creative and attractive.

'TASK TWO'-B

STAGE TWO:
In this stage, they chose their drawings to look up the most contrast which the number 1 and 3 which has the most contrast so its best to use it ( later, they chose to do number 4 as well). Then, they had used these drawings to develop them into CD covers and the final designs had to strongly reflect the initial graphic responses.
After brainstorming many different ideas, they decided that whatever they were going to do, it was going to be 3D style. They got some ideas from Nik Ainley style which the design is shown on the left corner. After they have done a lot of researching for their concept of tune, they started keeping the words for the main attraction on the front cover.


According to the sketches and tune they analyse by keeping the word 'Smooth' for the soft music and the word 'Rough' for the heavy metal music and lastly the word ' Digital' for the electric-sense music. Then, made a separate copy and start doing 3D letters into photo shop and continue in doing designing and illustrating the Cd cover. Finally, theyanalyse and saw their three Cd covers with different effects and illustrations. The final designs they use are different colours according to the feel of Cd covers. The below pictures shows the final design of the different Cd covers including with the album title.( I JUST USE THE ONE CD COVER TO DEMONSTRATE IN THE POST)
FRONT COVER

BACK COVER

'TASK TWO'-A

STAGE ONE:
To create a Cd cover, there are ways in doing thier own creation. Firstly, the object is divided into two sections. In the first section, they created by listening to 4 contrasting pieces of music. Then, took an A4 paper and drew a simple visual language of music. They need to aim a contrast between drawings and what kind of colours and shapes represent in their each type of music.
The picture reflected in creating different shapes and colours just by listening to a piece of music.
After listening to the music the 4 visual responses the layers are drawn. The first layer shows a slow, smooth, soft, calm watery type song.The second layer represents a upbeat funky song.The third layer shows a hard rough death metal rock song and,the last layer shows an electronic digital sounding song.

'TASK ONE'

Firstly, the process of designing the Cd covers is they scan or image preparation. The scanning of Cd cover is to make proper and original photographs. Sometimes there may be supplied digital files which can be created for printing purposes. Making Cd covers they do cropping, resizing and converting from RGB color. There are different ways in making the Cd covers more creative like custom illustrating, retouching or a silhouette. After this, they do typesetting.

They design whatever they like to do but need to make plans and settings for it before creating their own designs for Cd cover. To make design, they made plans in materials and started doing their design.
The images they used are from from library, or texture or brighten up the package design. Now, they make hard copy proofs to the digital proofers by mailing. Finally, their final print is to make high expectations from the Cd cover designs with high standards.

The creating and deigning of their Cd cover is finally finished. But, they still need to be approve as they need to know that they need to completely be satisfied from their work.
Now, they need to final finishing package of the Cd covers. After getting ready of packaging of Cd, DVD or Cd Rom package, finally they need to be send to the target markets.