I shall begin by discussing the borders which I added to my previously created images. This was done very simply but looked really effective. I firstly inserted both of my images onto the back cover of my DVD inlay. I then used the Rectangle Shape Tool to draw a rectangle. I changed the fill of this to None and then changed the colour of the stoke. Due to the fact that I had two images which I needed to add borders too I duplicated this rectangle border. I changed the colour of the stoke on one of these shapes to white and the other to the light pink. I then placed these over the top of my images and reshaped them until they acted as a complete border. The Direct Selection Tool allowed me to do this. The next step to creating this border was adding the small bow. This bow shape can be found in the Custom Shape Panel. I drew one of these out to the size and shape which I wanted. When I was happy with this one I simply copied and pasted it onto a new layer. I then changed the colour of these to fit with the colour border which I had previously created. The images with there borders
can be seen below.
The next aspect which I added to my back cover was the blurb. This is the text which tells the audience the basic plot of the story. The blurb itself I made up myself. To create the blurb I started off by setting myself a path. I drew a rectangle using the Rectangle Shape Tool and then changed the settings to make this a path. I then took the type tool and selected inside the box. I then typed out my blurb. The path I created encapsulates the text so that it is refined to that area. I then changed the font of my text. Like with everything on my DVD inlay the text used was Harlow Solid Italic. The size of this font is 16pt and the positioning was set to central. I also set this text to white. This was so it was clearly visible on the bright pink background. The image below shows this text on the back cover.
The next aspect of the back cover was the small table like feature which can be found at the bottom of the DVD inlay. This holds all the film information in terms of its running time and widescreen format... I decided I wanted to follow the general rule on DVD inlays and place my information in a similar format. I firstly used the Rectangle Shape Tool to draw a rectangle along the width of the back cover. I changed the fill of this to None and then changed the Stoke to white. I duplicated this 3 times so that I could split my information into three different categories. This is my template for inserting information. I began by adding the images that I needed in this section. This was in the form of the barcode, the age rating and the DVD Video Logo. I then used the type tool to add information. I began by adding the Languages and Subtitles. These acted as mini headings and hence the font size of these aspects were slightly larger than the rest of the type. These were set to 20pt and the main text in this aspect was set to 10pt. I also added the running time, colour and widescreen format to this aspect. The image below shows this area added to my DVD inlay.
As you can see from the image above there is still a fair amount of space on my back cover. I wasn't found of this fact and hence used the Custom Shape Tool to add some hearts to fill this space. The hearts also worked with the film in terms of Valentines Day. I reshaped and resized these to fit the given area and also changed the colour to fit with my colour scheme. I used colours from my ready made swatch. Now I was happy with the look of my back cover. This can be seen below.
Now I have created both my front and back cover along with my DVD Spine my final stage of this process is to evaluate. This will be in a later blog post. The image below however shows my final DVD inlay.
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