Front of Digipack

From looking through the different designs for the front covers of alternative rock digipacks, I got the idea to use the threshold effect to make the photo black and white. I thought this may give the image a 'dirty' appearance.

 I liked these a lot and wanted to incorporate them into the from cover of my digipack. However, I was unsure of how to do it without making it look amateur. Therefore, I tried a few designs to see what looked best.

Above are all possible designs for the front of my digipack. I designed them like this because I am sticking with the alternative rock genre. From looking at them like this and comparing them, I prefer the one with only three images of Chris. I am yet to add the artist and album name, however I decided to design some covers with bigger images or Chris so there are less of them.

 Above are the designs I came up with after deciding that I preferred less and larger images of Chris. However audience feedback told me that something else added would improve them, therefore I did something different:

 See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil is something very iconic and reasonably well known. Relating to the alternative rock genre, this is different and something out of the ordinary which I think works very well. I included the blue with attempts to match it to the back cover of my digipack. I am yet to see how these designs look with the rest of my digipack!

Digipack Inside Panels

I decided that a photo from the actual filming locations would be an effective touch to add to the inside of my digipack. As I was filming, I took random photos for proof of filming and to help me capture different angles for my filming. This has come in very useful as I can now use these for my digipack.

I had a fair few to choose from including these:

All of these photos are taken from in the pub. I think this is the perfect location for the photos as the lighting is low key and the message that the photo delivers consists of the character being lonely or depressed as he is drinking on his own at night time.

I like the photos of Chris drinking at the bar the most. They show that he is on his own and the lighting is very good here. I also think the angle is nice as the photos show the bar as well.

 

Above are the photos that I think are most relevant and efective. However, whichever one I choose will need to be editited. From looking at these photos, I have decided that I like the one of Chris where he isn't drinking. I think it gives the impression that he is stuck in thought rather than just drinking at the bar.

To make this photo more effective, I chose to alter the contrast and exposure levels to make the lighting seem more dark with attempts to make the photo seem more emotional.

  This is the finished photo for the inside panels of my digipack. The editing I have done on it makes it look more effective and professional.

This is what my digipack looks like so far with all of the panels except from the front.

Digipack Continued

Over the weekend, I took photos of different things such as wooden materials and floors with hops that they might work well for the background of some panels of my digipack. These photos were all taken from my house which was lucky as I didn't have to go too far to find appropriate locations!

This is what I got:

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The last photos are of my kitchen floor as we are having a new floor put in. So I was lucky to get the opportunity to take a photo of it! I think it fits really well with the genre of my track and relates nicely to 'The Streets', where I got my insipration from. I decided to use this as the background of my digipack:

As you can see, I have also decided to use a 4 panel digipack instead of six. I think this works better as there does not need to be huge amount of detail and I think it needs to be quite simple to reflect the genre. The grimey look of the floor also does a good job of reflecting the genre of the track and the colours illustrate the depressive feel that I am trying to create in the video to display the troubles in the character's life.

I finished the design for the back of the digipack using the blue colours that I thought worked well with feel the track gives. I again used inspiration from 'The Streets' by using a piece of paper and handwriting the track names. I then transfered this onto my adobe digipack design by taking a photo, editing it on Photoshop and placing it onto the adobe file. This is what it looks like:

And this is what it looks like on the digipack:

My idea for the other panels of the digipack include:

• A polaroid image of the character for the front panel with handwritten/computerised text underneath the image so fit the idea of a polaroid image.

I have gained inspiration from reasearching real media products (album covers) and above are designs that particularly grabbed my attention. I like how the levels of exposure and constrast have been increased and I aim to achieve something similar in my own design. 


• A stretched image that fits both the inside panels. Maybe a photo taken of the character in the pub or walking down the street. I do not want to have different images of the character as that would be too 'pop genre'. I think a photo from the music video would fit well as it sets the scene better and delivers the correct aesthetic.

Whilst researching, I came across these examples of digipaks and particularly liked how one image was used to cover the inside panels. The first example fits my design best as I am planning on designing a four panel digipak. However, after being attracted to 'THE POLICE' album covers, I also appreciated the increased levels of exposure and contrast in the Rihanna digipak.

Development of digipack

I have been thinking about using a particular colour theme throughtout my digipack to give it some structure and stability within its design. From listening to the song, a cold blue comes to mind, so I applied this to my designs to see what it looked like.
I uploaded a couple of pictures to Adobe Photoshop and used the hue/saturation tool to add the blue to the images:

I then placed these on my digipack document on Illusrator to see if they worked with the rest of the design and whether I could get the same blue for the other digipack pages to match the blue of these images:

The colours went well together, so I am now thinking I will continue to delevop the digipack with this colour! I then started to think about using the same idea as the streets digipack cover which I have shown on the previous post. I started playing around in photoshop with different images to see what I could come up with in order to give me ideas on where to go to take pictures to provide me with the opportunity of designing my own cover.
After taking pictures of my handwriting for the title of the album, I decided to write out the song names for the album on a blue lined piece of paper with a blue berol to keep the blue effect in scruffy handwriting. I didn't want it to be neat as it would come across too clean and 'rehearsed' which is not the vibe this song delivers. This is what I came up with:

 I then opened these up into photoshop to crop them and add some effects such as exposure and contrast levels. I used an old wood effect background and rotated the images to a relevant degree to see what it looked like and this was the outcome:

I like the look of this and although it isn't yet finished, I think it has potential and does fit the genre. I think I will add more blues and maybe more images to represent the helplessness of the character such as a spilt wine bottle or cigarettes.
My task for the weekend will be to take pitures of objects and backgrounds for me to use to create this kind of cover!