Final Digipack

We have now finished our digipack for our A2 coursework, to create each image below we used Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Apple Mac's over around 2-3weeks of lesson time, Enjoy!

Front Cover:

For this image, we went to the lakes in Horton, close to where we filmed the video itself along with the large rubber duck and colourful play-balls, two props we had gone out to buy with the knowledge in mind that they would involve in both the digipack and the video itself, we placed the duck just behind some mesh fencing (to represent a trap) and as Nando poured the balls over the duck, i took an action shot capturing the balls (to represent colour) falling onto the duck.

Back Cover:

This image is of the lake as the sun is going down, the image represents the end of the day, and in terms of the album the end of the digipack. We have also, using the lake and the sky, split the 12 tracks on the album in two. By doing this, we have stuck to the retro nature of the artist, by using a technique that used to be used on vinyls, showing the A and B side of the disk.

    
Inside Panel 1:

This part of our digipack on the inside represents the darker side of the album, eg. our music video for Inhaler, it is a picture of Nando whilst we were filming the video with a menacing look on his face. The fact that it is on the inside of the CD case is also of significance as the image seemingly jumps out on the person who is holding the album, again promoting the darker side of our music video.

Inside Panel 2:

This is the panel that is behind the CD and we decided to stick to the darker nature to match the other inside panel, promoting our video again. The message reads "quack" a reference to the duck on the front cover, however, this is a much more dark and sinister way of showing the significance of the duck. Again the suprise nature of this panel is important as this time, the message jumps out at you as you remove the CD from the case.

Magazine Advert:

This image is of an acoustic guitar on surrounded by the colourful balls that we had used in both the music video and the front cover of the digipack. The magazine advert sticks to most of the conventions of its kind, for example, the typography. We have made sure that all of the text is in the same font, with the most important pieces of information in a larger font; album name, artist, release date. With other pieces of information, such as website, record label and reviews are in a smaller font size. We have also made the album name opaic, something we have only done with this piece of information, allowing it to stand out the most as it is the most important piece of text on the page.