Introduction
This blog post will be focused around my digipack. I will research digipacks, document the creation and present the finished product.
What is a digipack?
A digipack is a booklet which comes with a hard copy CD. They are typically book style, paper document, made up for no more than 10 pages. They represent the band or artistic, and are designed to appeal to the target audience. Designs can vary greatly from bold graphics to simple style portraits of the artist. There are certain features which all include, such as the artistics name and a barcode.
Research Of Digipacks
I decide to research into digipacks created by similar artists, to gain a general feel of what my should look like. To do this I first created a mood board, using Pinterested. Here is the link to my online mood board:
http://www.pinterest.com/jgrecords/digipack/
I then decided to study the digipack of an album by "Jake Bugg". Jake Bugg is a English singer and song writer from Nottingham. He is Indie, sub-genre indie folk rock. He around the same age as by artist, Vincent Dellow, and would appeal to a similar audience. Therefor making this a good and relevant study. The first impression that I got from the front cover was that it was quite a simple, but moody portrait of the artist. The dramatic facial expression represents the stereotypical indie moody genre. The colours are a sepia tone, again typical muted colouring for the genre. The texting is a simple style, which is a running theme throughout his promotional material. The costume is a plain dark jacket, and the location is no visible due to a blur filter on the background.
Photographs
I took all my photographs for my digipack while filming my music video. This allowed me to make sure than the location, costume and mise-en-scene was the some to allow a running theme. I took these photo's on my Canon 60D, using an 18-135mm lens. This allowed me to use manual focus, aperture, ISO setting and more to produce a high quality selection of images.
A selection of the images that I took are viewable on this Flickr link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124516576@N06/
I decided to upload to Flickr as it is a online website designed to photo sharing. It was much easier than using to import and embed all of the photo's onto blogger. I have made the album public so that it could be shared on this blog. Here is a screen print of my Flickr photostream:
Creation of Digipack
To edit my photographs into a digipack I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 12. This is a professional standard photo editing software, which also allows features such as adding text. Making it perfect for the creation of this digipack.
I began by cropping down my front cover image into a square using the crop tool. I then reduced the saturation by -40% to replicate the half and half effect used in my music video. I added a white text, and selected a font similar to that used in my music video. I also added a small pattern as well using the custom shape tool. I add the manually shape and position off the these features.
For the back cover I had to insert barcodes and logos. I sourced these from google images, saved them as jpeg files and then imported into photoshop. I then selected and duplicated onto my back cover. The hardest was my own record labels logo. I had to convert it to black and white and then use the magic wand selection tool to select the text and a few stars. I then duplicated and positioned it onto my back cover.
Here is the logos, imported and positioned on the back cover:
I repeated similar text inserting stages for my inside pages too.
Finished Digipack
Here is my finished digipack:
Inside Page 1
Inside Page 2
Inside Page 3
Inside Page 4
Back Cover
This blog post will be focused around my digipack. I will research digipacks, document the creation and present the finished product.
What is a digipack?
A digipack is a booklet which comes with a hard copy CD. They are typically book style, paper document, made up for no more than 10 pages. They represent the band or artistic, and are designed to appeal to the target audience. Designs can vary greatly from bold graphics to simple style portraits of the artist. There are certain features which all include, such as the artistics name and a barcode.
Research Of Digipacks
I decide to research into digipacks created by similar artists, to gain a general feel of what my should look like. To do this I first created a mood board, using Pinterested. Here is the link to my online mood board:
http://www.pinterest.com/jgrecords/digipack/
I then decided to study the digipack of an album by "Jake Bugg". Jake Bugg is a English singer and song writer from Nottingham. He is Indie, sub-genre indie folk rock. He around the same age as by artist, Vincent Dellow, and would appeal to a similar audience. Therefor making this a good and relevant study. The first impression that I got from the front cover was that it was quite a simple, but moody portrait of the artist. The dramatic facial expression represents the stereotypical indie moody genre. The colours are a sepia tone, again typical muted colouring for the genre. The texting is a simple style, which is a running theme throughout his promotional material. The costume is a plain dark jacket, and the location is no visible due to a blur filter on the background.
Photographs
I took all my photographs for my digipack while filming my music video. This allowed me to make sure than the location, costume and mise-en-scene was the some to allow a running theme. I took these photo's on my Canon 60D, using an 18-135mm lens. This allowed me to use manual focus, aperture, ISO setting and more to produce a high quality selection of images.
A selection of the images that I took are viewable on this Flickr link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124516576@N06/
I decided to upload to Flickr as it is a online website designed to photo sharing. It was much easier than using to import and embed all of the photo's onto blogger. I have made the album public so that it could be shared on this blog. Here is a screen print of my Flickr photostream:
Creation of Digipack
To edit my photographs into a digipack I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 12. This is a professional standard photo editing software, which also allows features such as adding text. Making it perfect for the creation of this digipack.
I began by cropping down my front cover image into a square using the crop tool. I then reduced the saturation by -40% to replicate the half and half effect used in my music video. I added a white text, and selected a font similar to that used in my music video. I also added a small pattern as well using the custom shape tool. I add the manually shape and position off the these features.
Here is the logos, imported and positioned on the back cover:
I repeated similar text inserting stages for my inside pages too.
Finished Digipack
Here is my finished digipack:
(Click to enlarge images)
Front Cover
Inside Page 1
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