Zombies
Blurb. This is a piece of text which tells the viewer about the broad plot of the film to try and entice people to watch it.
Additional Pictures. These show more detail of characters.
Billing Block, age certificate and studio. The billing block is the technical information such as language, resolution and sound information. The age certificate is the minimum age PEGI (Or other boards) think the film is suitable for. The studio shown on the back is what studio produced and paid for the film to be made.
Spine. On the spine you can see the title of the film, the certificate and the studio.
Title. This is large and on the front as it is one of the most important parts of the cover.
Main picture. This is very large on the front and is used to draw viewers in and attract their attention.
Stars. These are put on the front as a film having major stars means that there is a higher chance of the film being high budget and tends to be perceived as being better.
Special Features. These are advertised to give the viewer extra incentive to buy the DVD, as there is more value for money.
Spine. On the spine you can see the title of the film, the certificate and the studio.
Blurb. This is a piece of text which tells the viewer about the broad plot of the film to try and entice people to watch it.
Billing Block, age certificate and studio. The billing block is the technical information such as language, resolution and sound information. The age certificate is the minimum age PEGI (Or other boards) think the film is suitable for. The studio shown on the back is what studio produced and paid for the film to be made.
Review. Shows a positive review on the front to show the audience that if they don't watch it, they will be missing out on a great film.
Title. This is large and on the front as it is one of the most important parts of the cover.
Main picture. This is very large on the front and is used to draw viewers in and attract their attention.
Tag line. A catchy line so that people remember the film. Also gives small insight as to what the film may be about.
Establishing Shot
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Zombie Edit
Zombie Edit 2
Zombie DVD
Evaluation of DVD Cover
The design of this DVD Cover makes it clear that it is a DVD Cover. Some of the main features which show this are on the spine, such as barcode, age certificate, title and studio. The back also has this information, including the technical spec of the DVD and the DVD logo at the bottom.
I don't feel as if this colour is regular for a zombie film DVD Cover, as the vast majority of zombie films have a red colour scheme, whereas mine is green and black. At a first glance, it looks more like a sci-fi film than a zombie film. This is something I would like to improve and change if I were to remake the cover.
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I included all of the relevant information apart from a tagline. I feel as if the simplicity of the front of the cover is what makes it stand out, so filling it up too much would take away from the design.
I have added reviews, which would make people believe that many people believe the film is great and they should watch it so that they don't miss out.
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I also added a billing block and a tech spec to the back of the cover. The billing block shows information such as filming location, director, designer, cinematographer and casting director. The tech spec shows information such as aspect ratio, sound technology, languages and runtime.
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The positioning of these features is great and I feel that I did a good job. Nothing is too small that you can't read it, but nothing is big enough that it takes up too much space and looks out of place.
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What I found most difficult about the process was making sure that all of the images I used looked like they were from the same place. To do this I had to colour them all a similar colour, this added continuity to the DVD Cover, even though the images were not originally from the same place. In the future, I would redesign it and make it look more similar to a traditional zombie DVD Cover, as I don't feel that this cover looks like a zombie genre DVD cover.
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What I enjoyed most about the project was coming up with an idea for a new film and then creating an interesting DVD cover.