Development of Digipak

Development of Digipak

When we first decided on designing the digipak, I decided I would design the layout on paper. We looked at having a 6 layout digipak, instead of having 4. I wanted our digipak to be different, therefore not having all our photo’s about our artist. By having the swings and trees this symbolises friendship as we see in the video the park where the two school girls would play.

Computer made design layout6 Panels

Inside Left CD Inside Right

Extra Back cover Front

Free digipak template I found on the internet. This will make it easier to piece the digipak together as I’ll only have to edit the pictures in photoshop.

Album Art- Image of artist’s face, song name

Pink PetalsText-Songs in the album

Black on the CD with writing

Photo of artist in a natural setting

Print of song lyrics

Production Company

Barcode

Text on spine

Computer Design

This is the previous image for the previous album. We decided we was going to change the whole style of this album.

This is the first image we decided to use for our new album cover. We felt this photo was suitable for the front cover as its professional and stands out, the flowers also add an elegant effect.

Contact Sheet.. Our picked image

Font Testing

This is final selected image for our font cover. This is the image we really liked as its simple but yet so elegant with the little features in place, such as make-up and costume. It adds a sense of warmth whenever you look at it. The facial expressions portray the message of pain which is linked to our narrative of Illness.

1st Edit- Black and white

I wanted to see how the image would look when edited in Photoshop, therefore I used the black and white adjustment layer for this image.I don’t think its suits really well, therefore I won’t use this for our final image.

2nd Edit-Saturation

I edited this image to a warm saturation layer, but as a group we felt there was something missing from this image. Also from our audience feedback, we got the impression that it doesn't’t properly attract or engage the audience as they felt there was something missing.

3rd Edit- RetroI edited this image to make it look retro/nostalgia. This image does look nice as it defines the whole image but I don’t think it would suit because of the other colours on our digipak. It would look out of place and really odd.

Editing of the image- We decided that we wanted the picture to be as natural as possible, therefore I just changed the brightness and contrast levels in order to make this image look more professional for our front album cover.

This is our first edit of our font album cover. Using Photoshop I was able to change some of the colouring on this picture. After some audience feedback I decided to change a few things round to make this even more better.

This is our final edit of our album cover. I feel that this is going to stand out to our target audience as the font is bold and distinctive. The image of our artist is professionally taken which makes it more successful for our album cover. I’ve just changed the colour of the font on top ‘All of The Troubles’ and the saturation of the image to make it more natural.

This is an extreme close up shot of flowers taken on a chair. For the back of the digipak, we selected this image as we wanted it to look and feel different to a typical singer-songwriter digipak. Therefore by having this it makes our digipak different and unique.

Final edit of our back cover- I used the font ‘Rainbow’ and ‘Georgia’ as I feel these fonts suit with the back cover. I’ve also used a light blue for the name of the songs part of the album as I wanted to add colour to make it stand out more especially because the background are pink flowers.

This was originally going to be the back of the digipak, therefore I made sure I included the essential things such as Barcode, Production logo and a copyright for our Album cover. But then we decided to not use this as it didn't’ look very professional in representing our artist and our brand.

Final Template of Digipak

This is the final design for the digipak. The inside panels consist of the two swings and trees which is evident in our music video. This shows a link between the digipak and music video. The white and black colours give the digipak a warm feel. The facial expressions on the front cover show that our artist may be paining, as we can see she’s not directly looking at the camera. I’ve used the typical conventions of digipaks such as Barcode, CD cover, all rights reserved, titles of all the songs on the back etc. I’m proud with this final product as I feel its professional and appeals to our audience.