Alright, so we had an assignment to do for my photo manipulations class and the goal was simple... make a DVD cover composed of images (without any special effects) you find online, and edit them to suit your cover. The goal was to make it as authentic as possible.
I would like to get as many opinions and feedback here as I can. Please tell me what you think.
Excuse the large file size, any compression I did to it proved quite ugly.
PS: Mind you, it was supposed to be composed of images we found online. Lord knows I couldn't afford to actually make a movie to have images to base it off of... haha.
PSS: The DVD cover is actually based on a novel I'm writing called The Painters, so theres a lot going on in this cover thats deeper then just "what looks nice."
Nice photoshopping. I'd say it looks authentic, if a little like a cheap budget movie on the back (only because of the 3 characters with jarringly clashing lighting - not your fault I know!)
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The fonts fit perfectly and the modifications you made to the logo look great.
On the front cover, the lighting on the planets comes from the top-right, but the lighting on the letters comes from the bottom. Have you tried moving the illumination direction on the text to fit with the rest of the image?
The text has a few grammar mistakes. I counted 3 in the first paragraph.
The planets looks really good, as do the trees.
PLUS ONE for cleavage.
I suggest giving your SilverLife logo a background. The text is very thin and that part of the image is pretty busy and it makes the text hard to read.
That guy looks a wee bit like Circy, no? PLUS ONE.
The bottom left part of the motion blur behind The Painters logo seems to be cut off at the edge of the planet. It could be intentional, I don't know, but there doesn't seem to be anything in front of it. The more I look at it, the more it looks like it's supposed to be drawn on the surface of the planet, which makes the planet look like it's flat like a saucer.
By the way, you get nice assignments for your image manipulation class! At uni my final assignment was to create a custom image filter manually using the user defined matrix in PSP5. fml
My main criticism would be that the front cover doesn't tell me anything about the film - normally I would expect to be able to identify the genre, if nothing else. This has planets, so it could be sci-fi; the font suggests maybe fantasy or romance; the title and general feel suggests maybe it's some kind of pretentious ("artistic") crap. I can rule out comedy, but that's about it. You can't rely on people reading the back cover.
Also, it's missing some things that would make it appear more "authentic".
* The barcode is in a weird position - literally every single movie in my collection has the barcode in either the bottom-left or bottom-right corner (moving it will piss off people who work in rental shops).
* Age rating should appear on the side and front as well - not just the back.
* I would always expect to see the names of the main cast members on the front cover (and possibly the side), and more detailed credits on the back (director, producer, music composer, etc). Unless you've been told not to...
* I would usually expect to see the movie tag-line on the front cover.
* It's missing the usual legal/copyright information in smallprint, on the back.
Originally Posted by ..::hagar::.. Looks like the women is giving the guy a wedgie of biblical proportions and smiling as she does so.
LOL! Like said previously, it looks pretty cheap.
Thanks Adam. Could not have possibly expected any better from you, could I? Nope.
Thanks for the excellent feedback from everyone else though, especially the constructive ones. The project is turned in now but never the less, it's good feedback for future use. Appreciate it.
Initial impression: very swanky looking! Liked the colour-scheme, reminded me of films like Twilight
After some more looking-at:
- The cover tells me nothing about the film, looks more like a book cover than a DVD
- Maybe have a photo of some of the cast on the front too, with a caption at the bottom to give away something about the film
- Barcode should be at bottom on back
- More colour around the logo on spine
- I really liked the 2 photos of the males on the back - the lighting fits the background, style wise
- Photo of the woman, though she's sexy, looks flat and doesn't fit. Shame!
- I think the boxing of the text on the back isn't necessary and doesn't look "natural", if that makes sense
I think everything else i was thinking got said already. I agree with adam in that to me it looks cheap but in the way of it being a low-budget film (i think it's the photo's on the back that make me think that), not in the way i think adam was trying to be funny.
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