Illustrator - Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas:

Starting this aspect of my assignment is very closely linked to starting the whole assignment, my only benefit is that now I have a basic concept. I have created my DVD inlay based around a Sex and the City theme. I also now have a colour scheme and a general feel for my product as a whole which can be seen from my Photoshop blog posts. The issues with this is the tools which I need to use in order to achieve my DVD label. I should be aiming to use vector shapes and text as well as free hand drawn elements. I will be sticking to my original colour scheme as this will give a professional feel and consistency.

My initial thoughts for a background involve the idea of a pink gradient with clouds made from a variety of different oval shapes. This will be an element which was made from scratch. I could also look into making some of these clouds using the pen tool and have some as an outline and some as a solid fill using the oval tool. This will hit different aspects of my criteria. An idea which I could use is placing images. I am not sure yet which images I would like to take from my DVD inlay however the three girls would be a good place to start. The title of the film will hit the type tool criteria. I like the idea of placing this to one side of the central hub. This would ideally sit in front of the image. I could look into text wraps to create different effects of this. I will also create a logo using vector shapes and then simply add an age rating and other important logos.

The main focal points of my DVD disk should include at a minimum:

1.      The colour scheme I previously created

2.      Ideally all three main characters however the main character would be acceptable

3.      The DVD logo (This should also be applied to the DVD inlay)

4.      Any relevant DVD logos such as Age Ratings

 

A second initial idea which I have come up with includes a sample of the main image on the front of my DVD inlay. I could give this a pink transparency over the top and then use the text tool to add my title. This would be positioned on the bottom half of the disk. I could use a clipping mask to make this image fit the circular DVD however the brush and pen tool would need to be incorporated however I’m not sure how this could work as yet.