Ancillary Texts Draft 2;

DIGIPACK:As I preferred the image on left inside of my digipack much more and believed it would look better on the front cover I decided to use this as my front cover image. I took the original image which was on the left inside and started a new document for the front cover of my digipack, copy and pasting the left inside onto the new document which was the measurements of my front cover. I was then lost for inspiration of what to do next so I searched the internet for existing digipacks in order to gained inspiration. I found a bastille album cover “Bad Blood” and found that I like the way in which the band title and album title is presented with the speech marks around the album title, also I took inspiration from the way the band title has changed the A in the title to a triangle to add an indie kind of effect, making it different to other album covers. The way that this album front cover also says ‘bad steel presents’ is an effective way in positioning the label which the artist is signed to on the front cover.

Original left inside Bad Blood Album Cover

One thing I did not like the look of on this album cover however was the publication details on the bottom of the album cover as this is information which I would not want to bombard my target audience with and I am likely to include this on the back cover of my digipack.

DIGIPACK FRONT COVER:Firstly the way that the ‘BAD STEEL PRESENTS’ is shown I believe works well with the band name and title. I would change this to the name of the record label I believe my artist would be signed to ‘COLUMBIA RECORDS PRESENTS’. I would also passible move this into the top left hand side of album cover making it easier for audience to see this piece of text, as in the middle it would not be seen due to the colour of my artists hair.

The use of the triangle presented as an A in the title gives an Aztec look to the cover, Aztec is generally seen to be rather individual and used by the African cultures, I believe that this relates to the soul side of my chosen genre as culture is seen to be very soulful. As the image on the front cover is a medium close up rather than a long shot I chose to add more of these effects to my text making it look more Aztec-ish I will add more quirky shapes to the text giving it a larger soulful image.

Lastly the speech marks around the album title gives a well laid out effect in my opinion as it gives the idea that people (audiences) are talking about this album. The title of my album is clearly shorter therefor I will make the font larger in order to fill the larger space at the bottom of my album cover.

DIGIPACK FRONT COVER INSIRATION:-Bastille album cover

-My album cover

This is the album cover I made, taking inspiration from the Bad Blood album cover, in comparison to the Bad Blood album cover focussing on the record label text. As you can see this text on my album cover is spread out much more making it easier for my audience to read this piece of text on the dark background.

The Process of This:

DIGIPACK FRONT COVER INSIRATION:

-Bastille album cover

-My album cover

This is the album cover I made, taking inspiration from the Bad Blood album cover in comparison to the Bad Blood album cover – focusing on the artist title. As you can see not only did I use the idea of turning an A into a triangle but I also filled in the holes which would have been in the ‘O’ and the ‘B’. I think this adds a dynamic individual affect to my album cover.

The Process of This:

DIGIPACK FRONT COVER INSIRATION:-Bastille album cover

-My album cover

This is the album cover I made, taking inspiration from the Bad Blood album cover in comparison to the Bad Blood album cover – focussing on the album title. The text on my album cover is much larger than that on the Bastille album cover, this is due to the fact that I believe on my album cover this looks more effective as each side of the image is a different colour to fit with the theme of binary opposites.

The Process of This:

For this I simply wrote “CLOWN” in a text box on photoshop and then transformed the scale of the image in order for it to fit the space in which I anticipated it to.

DIGIPACK – FRONT COVER:

DIGIPACK SPINE:It is clear to see that the spine on my current digipack looks greatly unprofessional, which is why I chose to redo this part of my digipack completely. As I have already stated on a previous blog post I need to do more research into this part of my album cover – so I did.

-DRAFT ONE SPINEThese are two album covers which I have taken inspiration from in the process of making the spine to my album cover. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kenny Chesney. The colour shceme on these two is different to my colour scheme ‘black, red, white and pink/red’ Which is why the inspiration I took from these spines has had the colour scheme changed.

One thing I found was that the record label that the artist is signed to is featured on the spine. I really liked the way that the first spine has incorporated this piece of text, with a small thin line separating this text from other pieces of texts.

Also I found that a small code was featured on the spine – I could not find what this code actually stood for however upon my research of other album cover spines this was a common convention so I knew it was important to include on my album cover spine. I though that it would be a good idea to include this code underneath my record label text in order to keep the added information in one small space. Also in this space I wanted to include an image of the major label Sony Music Entertainment as Columbia Records which is the label I have put my artist under is a subsidiary of SME.

As I had already changed the way the name of my artist looks one the front cover of my album I have chosen to carry on this idea and also carried on the way in which the album title is in speech marks – giving my digipack continuity. I like the way in which the Kenny Chesney spine has a box of block colour and the album and artist title in larger writing. I used this for inspiration also as I believed I could incorporate my colour scheme into this piece of work.

DIGIPACK – SPINE:

DIGIPACK BACK COVER CHANGES: The back cover of the digipak is the product which I used most photo manipulation tools on the models face. As this is a close up and there is no overall effect on this image. I used the brush tool and then changed the opacity of the things which I had drawn on a new layer in order to give an airbrushed effect to my artists face.

DIGIPAK – BACK COVER:

DIGIPAK CD/DVD:

FIRST CD/DVD:

DRAFT ONE OF A DIGIPACK:

SECOND DRAFT OF A COMPLETE DIGIPACK :