Sunday, April 26, 2015
Silver Linings Playbook
I didn't feel the real DVD cover for the Silver Linings Playbook did the movie justice and lacked any kind of connection to the movie itself. It was as if the designer of the DVD cover knew nothing about the movie, its characters or even the feel of the movie. This inspired me to make the DVD cover the way in my opinion it should blend and harmonize with the movie displaying and having an emphasis on the depths mental illness and it's wide array of emotions can have the same way the movie successfully portrayed.
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I like what you did with the clouds and the title with the "silver linings" cloudy typeface! Did you make it in Photoshop?
ReplyDeleteI also love the chalkboard drawing on the front and feel that maybe that should be the focus of the cover. You could center the chalkboard and tear the picture in half having her on the left, him on the right, and the chalkboard with the nice sketch of them coming together in between them. Just an idea.
Also a question: on the back cover, why did you choose to put the movie snippets in a role of film? It seems a little out of place unless it has some significance in the movie, like if he was a photographer or something to do with film (I don't know I've never seen the movie).
Oh and I noticed there are two movie ratings in different spots on the back cover. One says rated R and one says PG.
Disk looks perfect (to me)! Anyway, I like what you've done with this project overall =)
D - Overall you have some great elements to work with here. It's interesting to think about what Sam just said about tearing the cover photo of the 2 of them, so they appear separate, yet we'll notice the shared background which will unify them as well.
ReplyDeleteI question the cover photo, as I currently see it, is that it contains a warm neutral that seems to conflict with the rest of the cool colors in the palette. The large shape between them is warm grey. Warm colors come forward, which is what you want to happen - and yet there seems to be too much of that warm grey background (the gym walls) for the color palette. And... it fights with the title for prominence. In fact, I suspect many viewers will be drawn to the space in the photo between the figures rather than reading the title. Not what you want.
So... tearing the photo down the middle might be just the right thing to consider... dividing the large negative space between them to reduce that area. Something to think about.
CD - Since you have used the drawing of them "in the negative" on the cover (white on dark), I think you should do the same on the CD itself. Otherwise, we don't see the connection. I was wondering why I was seeing something completely new on the CD... and didn't notice it on the cover at all. Both need to appear as parts of the same design... the basis of branding, right?
This has great potential!