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Cant do my trailer

As you may guess by the heading and title, I was unable to do any after works or additional tweaking to my trailer because the software at university is out of date meaning I cannot open my project. So I took this opportunity to add the finishing touches to the DVD cover and DVD sleeve.

DVD cover

So the logo was done and all i needed to do was put it on a disc. I already had a basic template saved with the guides for the bleeding edge for both the inner and outer circle. My original plan was to leave the disc blank and have it as a solid fill background, but this would have been too plain and depending on the colour, could have made placing the logos difficult so I decided against it.

Instead, I selected an image that matched the theme of the trailer and sleeve. Form here, I created a circle to match the diameter of the outer most circle and used that as clipping mask. The original artwork was designed at a slight angle so I rotated the image slightly to make the appearance seem more straight in appearance.

The background of the DVD

The next thing was to add the text to the path of the disc on the inside of the bleed. I originally did this first so I had the path on a separate layer with the guides. I made the text a small white font that was easily readable as this is what all other DVD images had.

The small print text on the DVD

The final two pieces to do was add some logo's to the disc and the title of the movie. The first layer I did was the logo's where I found an age rating and DVD logo and placed these both on the left of the DVD, The reason for the right side is because most western region DVD's have them on the right as people read left to right, with the viewer likely to see the production company first. All that was left to do was copy my logo and scale it down so it would not cover too much of the artwork.

Once this was done I created a new layer and created a sub layer for each text. I used the same font style as the DVD sleeve for continuity as well as a similar shade of red. Once the text was positioned, the DVD cover was officially done.

The finished product

With that out of the way completely, it was time to finish of the DVD sleeve.

DVD sleeve

With the sleeve, there really wasn't much to do. I got the same logos from the DVD cover and re sized them and added them to the spine. I was going to add them to the front cover of the DVD too but after looking at other covers for reference, I decided against it as it seemed a bit too excessive. What I did notice though is that a lot of DVD sleeves have the logo on the spine as well as part of the front image. Unfortunately I could not do either as both the logo and image appear low quality and unrecognizable, so i opted to add the logo to the opposite side of the sleeve. With the logos in place, the sleeve was done.

The finished product for the sleeve

All that is left is the trailer. Oh the joy of after effects combined with a lack of experience.