Evaluating My DVD Cover

Post 12 – Evaluating My DVD Cover

I am very happy with the way my DVD cover eventually came together after such a long time spent on it. It took me much longer than I thought to work out exactly what I wanted to do with the cover, but I’m pleased with final result. I think it’s difficult to say you’ve ever done enough but I think the cover has everything I would want to include. I was very happy with the main title I created, when using features of illustrator. I think it really does set the tone for the rest of the project, as it is one of the first things you see. I spent a lot of time trying to blend the badger into the forest and come up with a result I was happy with, but every time I go back to it I alter my opinion a little. I look sometimes and I’m really happy with the way it blends together, but there have been occasions I’ve opened it back up and felt like I need to tweak it around again. I like how the forest comes through the white of the badger but sometimes I’m just not sure about the way black parts of the badger blend with the forest, although I think it’s important to keep it how I have because the badger is quite an integral part, both to the front cover and the film, as a main character of The Wind in the Willows.

I’m also very happy with the logo I created in illustrator for the production company logo; although I don’t think you ever see it in its best light on the DVD cover. To fit on the spine of the DVD it needed to be very small, and it would have looked out of place had I made it any bigger on the back cover. In its full size it does look like a really nice artistic piece, so I’m only disappointed I don’t feel it really came across as I wanted. The picture at the top on my back cover is another one of my favourite parts of the cover and I think this is just for the way it all seemed to go together so well. It didn’t actually take very long to do, although I probably used more tools of Photoshop on that image than any other. It was originally a daytime shot but now seems to look as natural as a night shot in the middle of a blaze of flames.