DVD Cover Sleeve

In this post, I'll be showing progress of my DVD sleeve that I've made myself.

First I asked someone from my class if I could take a picture of their face for my poster. Taking one picture as I only really needed a picture of a females face. The lighting was already set up and the white background behind the model was also already set up.

Then I found an 18's logo and removed the white outside with the eraser tool. After this, I dragged and dropped the logo onto the image of my model along with a film4 logo. Naturally, the logo's were bigger than I wanted them to be so I used the transformation option in the Edit tab and clicked scale. This allowed me to resize the logo's to my preferred size.

I added a title and poster credits but with the title, I added a flair so that the B in my title BEYOND would be lighter and then the light would fade out through the title. I also edited a few monsters/creepy figures into my models eye. I did this by finding the images I wanted, placing them in the right positions and altering their colours a little bit; then setting my eraser tool to 30% and erasing the images a little bit so that they would blend into the background of the eye. Trying to spook anyone that looked into her eye properly.

With the front cover done, I started on the back of the DVD sleeve. First I found a background and resized it to the size I needed it to be and started to put various stuff on it. I chose this style of background because I thought it would go well with how the front cover was styled.

Using Google images, I found three separate images and resized them all with the transformation tool again. Putting the three images as one as if it was a film reel. Above the three images I created a tagline to try and draw people in to looking into my poster more and making it seem interesting. I did the text in dark writing because I thought it looked better than red writing.

Below the images this time, I wrote a shot paragraph trying to draw the viewer into my poster more. I also created a special effects text box to make the DVD sleeve seem like a real one and interesting. I then inserted transparent images such as the DVD Video logo, DOLBY Digital, PAL region 2, Copy rights logo and a bar code. I also added a content awareness box as well.



Gathering a Blue Ray heading and a spine for my DVD sleeve, I wanted to make it look more professional. I created the spine myself and blended the colours to make it look similar to the background of the back on the DVD sleeve. I got a transparent Blue Ray logo and DVD video logo and also an 18's logo. Putting my title BEYOND on the spine as well as the front. Trying to create the same flair effect as the front of the logo.

The image above is my finished DVD sleeve that I have been working on and showing progress throughout this blog post.