DigiPak First Final Draft

Final DigiPak Images - Final First Draft

Front cover of my CD

Back cover of my CD

Left inside

Inside center left

Inside center right

For my first final draft for my 6 panel digipak I have used a very abstract theme, the weird imaging and colours are common to the genre but I may of used some bright colours that are not conventionally used within the indie rock genre. 

I have also forgot to include a barcode and my music labels name and production team to the back cover which are conventionally included in CD covers this makes my work look unprofessional and unconventional therefore I need to create more drafts including more of my research that I have looked in to.

Some of My Ancillary Texts in Production

To create my picture of the girl I took the original image from my documents and opened it up with photoshop. I begun by cropping the image to a size that was acceptable for a CD cover.

 I then used the effects and edits on the side to play around with colours and looks. I came to the properties tool and applied the Blacklight Poster effect this made the pastel colours stand out against the colour black that my actress is wearing. I then played about with the saturation to make sure the girl was still visible and clear to the consumer.

However for the effect I used on the male actor and the picture of the sun I took. I applied the Blacklight Poster effect as well as changing the 3D LUT to late sunset creating the effect of the sunset.

Final First Draft of Promotional Poster

I feel my poster is unconventional of a typical promotional poster as it is landscape rather than portrait. I like the font used for the name of the artist as it shows the edgy genre and connotes it being damaged due to the song I am wanting to promote. My image could be more clear and use better skills of my photography as well as push myself to be more adventurous with the images especially when it comes to editing in photoshop. Also using the girl actor within the music video instead of the artist I am promoting may be another mistake I have now realised once coming to the final parts of the product but I am willing to create more drafts and learn from these mistakes.

However due to my genre being a very black and white dominated genre I also created a black and white version to see if this would be more appealing to my target audience. Due to the black and white I feel like I lose my image and it makes the movement of my girl actor stand out more ruining the poster. I feel the font needs to be more clear in both posters and make more of an impact to my audience.

Promotional Poster Production

To create my promotional poster for my artist and their latest single I had to revisit the programme photoshop. In my As coursework I was very unfamiliar with photoshop as I had never used it before and I haven't used it since my As coursework and therefore getting familiar with all the tools again has been a challenge for me. I begun my adding my image I wanted to use for my promotional poster.  I changed effects such as the radiance and using the channel mixer and to make the image of the girl stand out.  However instead of using the typical font for my artists name I did research into the more professional fonts I want to use on my poster and preferably my digipak. I saved this as a jpeg from word and opened it in photoshop. This allowed me to use the lasso tool and the quick selection tool to cut around his name and move this over into my original image for my poster.

 After adding my font to the image that I had started to create I realised that the font was quite small and unable to be a name that would stand out and the picture background does not help with the colour of the font. Therefore after research into existing products I found that well known bands do not use their names as advertising but use the song more often so I used the artists name for the website but in the font that stands out this then lets the consumer know of the artist but through a different kind of way instead of the original headline. However I feel this may be unconventional of my genre and my first draft is very weak at the minute especially relating and backing up my genre that i chose.

However after many adjustments of text and size I added the title of the song to the image in the font 'impact' I used the properties to make the text cling together more and stand out on the poster. The white coloured fount is continually used throughout the poster emphasising the name of the song, when and where it will be available as well as the website.

My ancillary text research - Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

On the outside of the digipak we can see the picture of a house or what looks to be a row of houses stretched across the three panels. The name of the band and the title of the album are placed in the top  left hand corner in bright yellow this stands out to the grim and dark colours of the album. The use of the yellow colours is a form of continuity throughout the outside of the album cover. The use of the colour inside the houses attracts us into the little windows this could be seen as connotations of the nightmares happening as we have nightmares and dreams when asleep in rooms of the houses. I like how they have played around connecting the title to the images on the front of the cover. The dark colours used connote the stereotypes of the genre Arctic Monkeys fit into such as rebels, crazy, mysterious and edgy.  There is also a barcode displayed at the back, which is the middle panel, on the bottom left hand side and next to it is the institution who made the Cd and the labels name as well as the website. 

The inside of the cover seems to be more colourful which you would think would be on the outside so that it attracts consumers when sat on the shelves of shops. However with Arctic Monkeys being a very popular band they may feel like this isn't appropriate and would not fit in with the genre of the music if to many bright colours were used.  The CD is a dirty green colour with an image in the middle, the image is abstract which is another use of indie rock bands, they use more abstract images to stand out and sometimes show themselves through the abstract image.

6 Panel DigiPak with 2 CD's Template

This will be the template I use when creating my digipak.