Thursday, 13 December 2012

Digipack Practise

We have started creating a digi pack for a artist within the electronic genre. I chose to make a digi pack for Tiefshwarz which is a german electronic artist. This is practise for when we have to create our own digi pack for our artist. The template we used is shown below.
I firstly found images of the artists from http://www.wide-agency.com/artists/tiefschwarz, the image I used for the front cover is below. I edited this image through picmonkey.com so it fit more with the electronic genre, I firstly changed the colour saturation and temperature to give it a slight blue tint, I didn't think the blue fitted to the genre so I used an effect called 'Focal B&W.' This effect allowed me to change the colour of the image to black and white whilst having a focus which keeps the image colour, I put the focus in the bottom left hand corner of the image as I thought that it looked good and didn't over power the rest of the image. I added a texture over the top of the image which was electricity waves. With this I was able to edit the 'fade' which made it more transparent so the artists were still visible behind the texture. I think this effect meets a genre convention and also worked well with the image I chosen some of the electricity waves were visible on one of the peoples necks and looked like a vain which I personally thought looked good.

I finally added text onto the image, I tested some text out and found the one the best fitted the electronic genre and the feel I was trying to get from the cover. The text I used was called 'stapete.' 
As I was creating this for my digipack front cover, I had to come up with a name for the artist along with the name of the album, I chose 'Encode' for the name of the band and the album was called 'Expression.' 
This is the final front cover image.


I then started creating the back cover, as I have done research into Digi packs, I know that the contents of the back cover needs to have the names of the songs on the album. Along with that there is usually a bar code and recently twitter/Facebook logos have been included because of the increased in the social network sites, this allows the audience to connect with the artist even more.Keeping this information in mind I went on to create the back cover. 
As the name of the artist was now Encode, the first thing that came to my head was a type of coding. The image I chose to use is below and I believe it comes from the movie 'matrix.' Before using it in my digi pack I decided I would need to change many things, firstly the colour as at the moment it would not be synergistic with the front cover as I haven't used green at all. 
To implement the image I used the same features as I did for the front cover image. I changed the colouring to blue and then using the focus black and white tool I focused in to the right of the image which made that part blue and the surrounding area black and white. I had to come up with some song names which relate to the electronic genre and would be expected within the album. I used the same text as the front over, which kept synergy within the digi pack but changed the colour to white as it stood out on the black and white background. I got an image of a bar code along with the twitter and Facebook icons off of Google and added them into the bottom right hand corner as this is their general location on most digi packs. 
Below is the final back cover, if I was to improve this I would make sure there is small information about the record label and any details about the album as there is often this on actual digi packs. As this is only a practise I will ensure I take this into consideration when creating a digi pack for my artist.

I had 1 inside cover of the digi pack to create along with the actual CD.
For the CD I used the same texture image as I used for the front cover, this was the electricity waves. O went through the same process to put it on the image of the CD, I also used the same font but put Encode in white whilst the name of the album 'Expression' was in black.


The final image I used was for the inside cover, I found an image of the artist that I thought would look effective within the digi pack. The image was already black and white, when I put it into picmonkey.com I used an effect called 'tranquill' which gave the image a cool effect. I put this within the digi pack to see how it looked but it wasn't synergistic with the other images and looked really odd. 


I kept the effect on the image but used the tool of focus black and white again which made the whole image black and white apart from the section I chose, this was similar within both the front and back cover of the digi pack and therefore I thought it looked better and kept within the scheme I was going with. As in each of the other images within the digi pack had a touch of colour and the rest of the image was black and white, I chose to do this with this image and made the colour go on both of the people in the image.

Below is an image of my final digi pack that I created for an artist within the electronic genre as practise for my own digi pack creation.

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