2nd idea scrapped

We realised that these images dont' fit very well with the theme of our digipak and album. The whole idea that the band members' features are not recognisable doesn't fit with the branding of the band as they deserve to be recognised rather than being 'faceless'. Therefore, we are going to have to design some more inside panels, with the band on them.

Inside Panels (2nd idea) development

 The cut out of the drummer.

 The cut out of the lead singer and guitarist.

 The cut out of the bass guitarist.

The abstract image that the cut out images will be layered on top of.

The end result.

Inside panels (2nd Idea)

As our first idea didn't work, we took inspiration from the front cover of  Slow Magic's album, Triangle. We decided that we would use the photographs that we took for our original idea. What we were to do was to cut the body out of the photograph and then place the background with a silhouette of each of the bodies on top of an abstract photograph that I had taken myself.

James Blake idea gone wrong

As you can see, this design idea has not gone to plan. What we did was, in photoshop I layered 3 different photographs on top of each other, to create a blurred face effect. However, something has not happened as we would have liked so we are going to have to think of new ideas as this idea hold little similarities to the rest of the digipak.

Front Cover

We used the close up of the eye imagery to express the psychological theme of the album. The red of the iris is there to connote ideas of fear and danger. To do this, I selected the iris in Photoshop and altered the colour balance. I then added another layer with the Band's logo and put that in the middle of the pupil, to make it central to the front cover and making it noticable. The titles 'fear the lizard' and 'jeepers creepers' are small and not very noticable so the imagery stands out more making it more striking.

Inside panels

On the inside panels we are wanting to have imagery similar to The James Blake album cover, which I have shown in an earlier blog post. This fits in with the theme of the album, the theme being an alternate way of seeing things due to mental instability. We will be having a different 'James Blake-Esque' photograph for each member, one on each inside panel.

Digipak arrangement

Tall Ships Everything Touching

The Digipak Has only four panels. The abstract image is used throgh the front and the back page.











On either panel is a slot, on for the CD and one for a poster, on one side of the poster is an abstract image reminiscent on the front cover, on the other side is, the lyrics from all of the album.

On the inside panels is thank you and credits, to producers, family and friends.

Hot Chip The Warning

The digipak has 6 panels, the number we will be having on ours. The outside panels have a the same image in the background, the imagery represents the band well, it's full of colour, the band are a fun band. The songs titles are very prominent and in a different colour ot the background.





The inside panels, are of similar imagery to the outside, just with a black and white colour. Very simplistic inside.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums Heartcore

The digipak has 6 panels, again the amoun that we will want to be having. The front cover is very abstract as is the other oanel on the outside. The back panel contracts to this as it is full of colour and shape. The song titles are at the bottom vertically in small print, we will use this way of laying out the song titles.

The inside panels match with the back panel, they are very abstract still just with more colour and structure.

Our Digipak

• We will have 6 panels
• Inside the front panel will be the CD
• Inside the back panel will the the lyrics poster

Digipak imagery

From the opening of Veritgo is a close up shot of an eye, which suggests that the film is about the psychology and mental state of the film's protagonist. We may use this imagery for our digipak, a close up of an eye, because our album is also based around mental instability and being on the inside of someone's head who is not very mentally well. We will probably use this on the front cover because it will be very noticeable and indicative of the album theme.

James Blake's album cover has inspired our group because the imagery suggests a man with a split personality maybe, or inner emotional problem, this fits with our theme and could use this technique of blurring a face on our front cover or somewhere else in the digipak.

Somewhere on or digipak we will probably use abstract imagery, suggesting an alternate view on reality.

Digipak ideas

For our album digipak, we are wanting something that ties in with the theme of the music video, but not directly referencing the music video. The main theme of the music video, is mental instability, and different ways of seeing reality. We are wanting to create an image for the band that portrays them as having an alternate view of life.

Second Draft Audio Feedback

We got some audio feedback from the AS Media Class and we recorded their feedback in a short video: 

Second Draft