Digipak: Creating Inside Front Cover

So on my design, this is where the drawing of the house would've been but instead I decided I wanted to add some lyrics.
So while I was filming my teenagers in the park I took a few pictures to put onto my digipak.
I wanted these pictures to feature as a piece of each age is involved in the digipak, obviously this represents the teenage years.
Here are some of the photos I took:

The photo I chose in the end was: 

I chose this because I thought it was quite artistic (keeping with the genre) and a nicely framed shot. 

I then chose the font for the lyrics, I wanted it to be quite simple, so I went for Ariel rounded. 

The only thing about this cover is that because the picture is so colourful it was hard to pick a font colour that would stand out. In the end I decided to go for black because it was easier to read most of the text. 

Digipak: Creating Front Cover

When filiming my children I took a picture of the tin I used in the whole of my music video. This is when an idea cropped up, as the tin is so significant, maybe I could use this image but change the text of Love Hearts to "The Rumble Strips".

I then turned to photoshop...

To start with I cloned away the original text: 

I then looked for a similar text that was for the "LOVE HEARTS". I decided to use STENCIL. 

After I added the text, I edited the layer so it looked more realistic and like it was actually embossed into the tin. Changing the depth of the style and softening it, and also changing the opacity: 

To incorporate the stars from the font I cut out the stars using the quick selection tool and dragged it across to my edited tin and added them on: 

This is my finished project, which I am pretty impressed with! 

 

Digipak: Creating the Back Cover

So after my first attempt of filming yesterday and my discovery of Kirty's black board drawing I thought it would look good as either my poster or on my digipak.
In result I decided to experiment of putting it on my digipak.

At first I did consider using it for the front cover however, I thought the amount of black wouldn't really catch a consumers eye. It also isnt a very exciting colour, so instead I thought about using for my back cover, rather than the scribbles I originally had.

I opened my image onto photo shop and tidied up the bits of white chalk which had been rubbed off by using the cloning tool:

I then realised that I needed to pick a font that would match the picture to put in the song lists. I tried a few however, I felt none of them looked very good, so in the end I decided to try and draw the text on. 

I did this by using the paint brush and picking a brush that give it a chalk effect: 

I manage to find a realistic effect, using the drawn on text matches the indie genre as it is something different. And really matches my intentions of childhood. 

I also added, two bar codes, including a Blackberry one. As consumers now use modern technology to find out more about the band, this barcode takes Blackberry users to their 'website'. 

I got the pictures from google and then dragged them onto my back cover:

Originally I did a single album cover, but after speaking to my teacher I decided to add on more songs to make it into an album, here's the finished picture: 

 

Digi Pak Behind CD Creating

I've started creating my digi pak for my music video.
For behind the CD case I wanted to use sweets as these are childish, and Haribo are often related to children.
In my orginal plan I was going to use liquorice strips to make birds, like on the front picture, however I could not find any of these at the time so decided to put some teddy bears in there instead. This was better as it included more colour and thats definitely what I wanted.

SNAP SNAP
Instead of creating the sweets on the computer I took pictures on plain white background.

This is how I orginally led them out, in the shape of a CD and the egg in the middle.
However the shading on the background made it look quite dirty, so I decided to cut each sweet out and apply it onto a plain white background. This also meant I could move the sweets around.

After doing this my result was.. .

Draft 1  

Heres my first draft of under the CD case, I added the drop shadow to give it more depth, but I think that it looks a bit plain. I might experiment with different backgrounds which may give it more character.

Digipak Research

Kate Nash

This digipak has hugely influenced mine. It has a wide shot of a house, which is similiar to the house I want drawn on my digipak.

The image looks surreal as it has been created on the computer. The colours are bright, and you can see Kate Nash, the artist, in red so shestands out.

The font is simple and immitates hand written text. Following the conventions of childhood. Just like mine!!

Vincent Vincent and The Villains

Here, they have gone for the scruffy text, and a feel of hand drawn stripes.

They have also combined computer text, on top of a picture, just like my design (without the computer text!)

Jason Mraz

This is similar to the Kate Nash digipak. The font is simple and looks handwritten. The picture is drawn, again something I'd like to feature in mine. It isn't anything jazzy and could show he thinks music is more important than the glossy outfits and fame!

Digi-Pak Planning

Need to do
Done

Front Cover

  
• Buy fridge magnets - capital & non - capital letters
• Find white fridge, preferably retro? Ask Alys about her 'Smeg' fridge.
• The children to be drawn with crayons and blended on fridge (photoshop)

OR

• draw picture and paper and stick on fridge underneith magnets.

Back Cover

• Experiment with crayon scribbles, like a toddler

OR

  
• Experiment with coloured sring/thread
• Experiment with coloured elastic bands

Inside front cover

• Draw background eg. clouds, sun, grass and flowers.
• Experiment with lego house
• Clouds as cottonwool
• Real grass and petals for the grass and flowers

Under CD

• Haribo sweets
• Magic stars
• Liquorice

Digipak First Rough Plan

Here is a rough plan for my digipak
I want my digipak to relate to my music video. In order to do this I have decided to make it quite childish. The fridge magnets link to the fridge magnets my young boy will use in the music video to spell out the words "BEST FRIENDS FOREVER". The sweets will also relate to the sweets the teenage boy will give to the teenage girl. I love the idea of creating things then taking pictures rather than actually doing them on the computer. For example on the cd I want to have sweets, like Haribo love hearts, black liquorice for the birds and magic stars! This also makes my digipak very colourful, reflecting the happy song.

PHOTO FUN (magnetic lasso tool/superimposing)

Our first photoshop lesson also included using the lasso tool, to get the basics done we cut out mario and sonic and popped them on another background..

We then went to more adnanced matters making Harry Potter fly over London! Here my attempt, the blur was supposed to make it look like he was moving in motion however, i think its too much.

We had some time left at the end of the lesson so I decided to experiment a bit more with photoshop making my friend look like she was in a different room.

PHOTO SHOP FUN! (rota scoping)

We also did some rota scoping like how the old school animations were done, I found this activity fun, and it might help with the childish theme I might involve on my digipak...
The orginal

After

I also did a second one, experimenting with the real photo and then the rota scoped one mixed together, you can see the eyes become quite creepy..