DVD Cover - Mobb Legacy, 10 years deep

Over the next few days i'll be posting up some work that i've been doing over the past two weeks of my holidays. To start it off, here's some research into DVD covers.

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This dvd cover is a simple house style, in terms of its colours and use of text and images. The font type is the same, and the same colour (white), whereas the images will have a use of red around them, in a main background of black. Alot seems to be going on in this cover, but it actually isn't. It has a simple layout, using the cover to its full, covering the whole page with text and images to advertise themselves on the DVD cover as much as possible, which is what you want to do with this type of distributable. Below is a deconstruction of the layout in which was used for the DVD cover.

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As you can see, when looking at this image, and then back at the original DVD cover, it now looks pretty basic. For the front cover, they have placed a large image of a hooded skull character, with blood around him. The middle has the name of the artist group's name in bolt lettering, and then the extra text in smallprint at the bottom. Using this rule of thirds allows them to make the most of the area given, by placing their name in the middle it shows the importance of it, and then placing an image at the top to catch your eye, then the small print for you to read.
The back of the DVD cover works in a similar style. The image to link the front and back together has been placed on the top, of another skull character, wearing apparel of a stereotpical rap/gangster characteristic. The images on the left represent the artists within this group, placed inside a border of a blood drip, linking it with the front cover with the excess of blood used on the top half. In the middle is the small print text, explaining what is within the DVD, as there is with all DVD back covers. At the bottom is placed the sponsors and companies involved with this group and the DVD.
A simple spine has been used, but it still links with the rest of the cover. A red gradient background, with the name of the DVD in white text, simple but it works really well.
It therefore meet's the typical conventions for a DVD cover, with the companies and sponsors placed at the bottom on the back cover, the description placed on the back of the DVD cover, the name of the DVD placed on the spine, and then with the front cover used to advertise the group and text to show who they are.