Digipack

Digipak

Digipak Day 1 – 6th DecemberToday I started on creating the front cover of the Digipak. After discussing with the group we thought a good idea would be to use one of the photographs from the stop motion we shot. The image on the right is the one we chose as I think it best reflects the song to our music video and what it is all about. Also the composition and expression I believe is extremely successful here.

Digipak Day 1 – 6th DecemberTo make this photograph stand out a lot more I decided to retouch this on Photoshop. I did this by first of all adding brightness and contrast to the photograph by using the level and curve tool on this editing software. I also used the paintbrush tool to retouch his face and a few blemishes.

Digipak Day 1 – 6th DecemberI then started to add the text to the image, this was the album name and the name of the artist. We had previously thought of the name ‘Cody Banks’ for the artist and also came up with the album name ‘Moments’. We thought a good idea would be to put the title on the heart in the photograph. Firstly I went on to DAFONT.COM and found a font that I felt would work well called‘Bebas Neue’ I added this to the heart keeping the colour theme of black and pink.

Digipak Day 1 – 6th DecemberWe asked for feedback from peers and our teachers. One piece of advice was to have the hearts (the one he’s holding and the ones in the background) in colour and the rest in black and white. I did this by duplicating the layer, changing it to black and white and erasing this colour change on the hearts. This worked extremely well and created a bold image with strong contrast.

Digipak Day 2 – 7th DecemberToday I started to make the digipack look more like a CD cover. I decided to do this by editing the dimensions and also adding a ‘sticker’ to it that you tend to see on covers. By changing the dimensions to 5x5 inches it cut of the two hearts at the bottom, therefore I made these smaller so they fit in the dimensions. I also started to add the sticker that had the single on (song of the music video) and also a made up song. I also added the text ‘bonus DVD limited edtion’

Digipak Day 2 – 7th December

Today I started on the back of the digipak. I looked at some more CD covers and found a cover that I really liked and influenced me to do something similar. This was ‘I created disco’ by Calvin Harris. I Liked the layout of this and the two colours used. I started to make the back cover by creating a pink shape with black numbers on it. Then on the black side on the right we made up some names of songs. This looked successful.

Digipak Day 2 – 7th DecemberWe thought that it looked quite plain, therefore I went on a few websites that had free textures to download for Photoshop. The two on the right are the textures that I added to the digipak. I added these and changed the blending options which created a grungy effect.

Digipak Day 2- 18th DecemberToday we focused on finishing the digipak. This was to do the middle part of the digipak, and the two side photos.

We used one photograph from the stop motion that we felt would suit the brand identity in our digipak and music video. This was a photograph where Tommy was making a love heart sign. I edited this to get rid of the writing on the chalk wall and also to retouch his face. I then changed it to black and white as this was similar to the front.

Digipak Day 2- 18th December

• For the two sides to the digipak we decided to again focus on the word moments. I print screened lots of shots from the music video of the couple that showed memories. I then made this in to a collage with looked really successful. I also changed this to black and white to match the front cover and the middle photograph in the digipak.