DVD Cover- Ancillary text

I created my DVD cover on photoshop, a program I had never used before, and worked to achieve an interesting and enticing DVD cover. My DVD cover was mainly inspired by Old Fashioned fairy tale book covers as I liked the texture they appeared to have but also how highly decorated they were. To replicate this I tried to recreate gold leaf gilded vines around the images and bejeweled bees scattered over the cover. I chose to do vines and bees to highlight the emphasis of nature as I feel like fairies are associated to nature and also to represent the beauty of mother nature. I used a leather texture for my cover to also add to the tradition rustic feel that I wanted to portray.

I included quotes on people opinions of the music video on my DVD as they tend to be on all conventional DVD's, However, I chose to place them on the front, regardless of conventions, to draw more attention to them so that people knew what to expect. I didn't want people to get the wrong idea by my DVD cover and assume that the piece was calm and peaceful just because of the delicateness of the fairies and details on my cover. I also drew attention to the piece being more graphic than imagined by including a screenshot of the blood covered hands and a warning. On the back of my DVD cover I included a warning of the graphic and gory content and an age rating so that people that I deemed as too young for the content would know not to view it. Age classifications have been put on British films since 1912 by the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification). This is to notify audiences of the age at which they are mature enough to view it. This age classification is compulsory on all DVD's in the UK and is to prevent young audiences viewing content that is not suitable for them.