DVD Case Sketches

For Uni I'm needed to design the cover (front and back+spine) of a DVD case for a Film/Game aswell as the image which goes on the disc. The Film or Game will preferably be one made up by myself, so not one already existing.
I'll also need to create a video and apply effects to it using Adobe After Effects, I have no idea what I'm going to do for this at the moment.
I'd ideally like to figure out what to do for the base of the video first before doing the case designs, as case designs are easy, but making a video which is remotely relevant will be the trickiest part.


My first thought for a film to create a case for is for Han Solo (from Star Wars), due to the recent announcement by Disney that one of the new Star Wars films will be about a young Han Solo.

I did 2 quick sketch ideas and mock ups of both in about 10mins.

The first is a really simple design, not much I can do in Photoshop to it to utilize most of the tools it offers.



As you can see its a basic design with Han as the sole focus of the image, with the title at his feet, and the background will be space.

The second sketch of a case design has a bit more going on, and even at this stage liked more than the previous.



This one has the same cutout of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) but here he isn't the sole focus, he is seemingly standing on a planet, with the title "Solo" being spelled and using him as the "L". The thing in the upper right is meant to be the Millennium Falcon (Han's iconic spaceship from the original Star Wars Trilogy)