DVD Cover Research

Before creating our own DVD cover, we firstly began to research existing DVD covers of a similar genre. These are the main DVD covers that we researched:

50 First Dates
500 Days of Summer
The Break Up
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Me, Myself and Irene

When looking at these DVD covers we noticed all of the conventions that were required to make a DVD cover. The conventions that we felt that we needed to include on our DVD cover were synopsis, pictures, production company website, credits, running time, language, main feature subtitles, company logo, classification, barcode, reviews from magazines, layout, main cast, titles, strap line and a big picture as the background image.

Most of the DVD Covers that we looked at had the same layout, for example the main characters name along the top, a big picture as the background, a three colour scheme and the classification on the front, side and back.