CD for my Digipak

CD for the Digipak

This is the first draft for the CD to my digipak. It has a kind of 70's feel to it because of the warped text around the cd. I don't think it fits with the genre of the rest of my digipak because of this and I'll have to redraft it. 

Another reason I'm not using it for my digipak is that after talking it over with someone else, they mentioned that the design was bold, and if the design is bold that would mean that everything else in the digipak and my website would have to be bold and outgoing too. I think I prefer to stay simple with the design.

Spine for Digipak

Spine For Digipak

 

 

I wanted to use the flowery background for the spine of the digipak in order to keep the images consistent and I think it works well, but I don't like the font of the name, the album title and the reference number.

I'll have to download a new font for them to make them fit well. But I do like the way that the label name looks on the spine. You can't see it clearly enough so I'll have to put it on the back cover in a bigger size.



Digipack Practice #3

3rd Digipack Practice

This is my 3rd attempt at photo shopping my digipack cover. I like the 'fun' vibe it promotes, but I feel like it takes a lot of attention away from Matilda, and in pop music, the focus is always on the star. I think if there was a way to make her stand out more that it could work as a cover. Maybe if I heighten the colours of her make-up it would emphasise her more.

Digipack Practice #2

2nd Digipack Practice

I played around with CS6 and watched a different tutorial that showed how to create a Lichtenstein-inspired pop art effect.

I like that it connotes something playful and enjoyable like a comic book, but I wanted the colour to play a big part in the digipack and this effect washes the colour out so that everything in the background is a lot paler than the foreground.

Digipack Practice #1

Digipack Practise

I have been watching tutorials on youtube to learn different effects that can be made in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and I found an effect that makes the photo look like it's made up of cubes.

I like the effect but I think the cubes connote more of a dance genre and we want something that looks like pop.

First Draft of Digipack Cover

Digipack Cover idea

This is my first initial design for the digipack cover. I like the image of matilda used, because she is smirking and she is wearing bold make-up and a leather jacket that makes her look tough, but I don't think it has enough to show a contrast between sweet and girly, and tough and rebellious. I also think the font I used is more suited to the 'dance' music genre rather than pop. I like that the colour of the font matches her lipstick because it brings more attention to her mouth and the position that its in.

I think to improve this I will have to find a font on the internet and download it to use for the cover, because most of the fonts on photoshop look too generic. I also think that this cover is too simplistic and I need more going on in it to make it interesting, like the illustrations used in Cher Lloyd's 'Sticks + Stones'.

Music Video Practice 3

Music Video Practice 3

In this practice we tried playing with lighting and the different effects that they have when used in a music video, for example, light behind the head or to one side of the face.

Music Video Practice 2

Music Video Practice 2

In this practice we filmed ourselves disappearing behind a pole. We were trying out a technique that might be useful in our music video.

Music Video Practice 1

Music Video Practice #1

This is our first practise video. We did Rather Be by Clean Bandit and we tried to see what kind of different shots we could use.

Practising Photoshop

Practising Photoshop

Removing Blemishes

           

               Before 

After

Lighten/Darken an Image

Removing objects from photos

Moving Objects

Work on two images at once

Remove the background

Mask