Finished Outside Panels for Digipak

Here is our finished 6 panel digipak. Our front and back cover have been shown in earlier posts with more detail. For the third panel we decided to take a picture of our artists' shoes. This was to show his style and 'swagger' as he is seen wearing hi-top trainers and baggy jeans which was the look we were intending to go for. We have also included a spine as our previous layout was without a spine. For our spine we decided to keep it simple, we used the same font as we did for the front and back cover but just changed the colour to black with a white background. Also, from out album research we found out that most albums have the record label within the spine, so this is why we added our record label. We decided to also include a 7 digit number after the record label as we found that this was also featured in all of the digipaks that we looked at. We didn't edit any of the inside panels as they received good feedback.

Back Cover - Final

For our back cover we decided to take a shot in the recording booth while we were shooting for our test shoot. We used this shot as we didn't want another shot of Josh posing, we wanted a shot which looked natural and one that looked real. The track listing on the black paper on the wall was purely a random choice, we took a various amount of photos and decided to use this one. We had no idea that our track listing would go there. We are very happy with this as it looks as if it was all planned and looks like a good idea. From our draft digipak we have repositioned the barcode slightly inner than before. We thought it looked unfinished and very rough that the barcode was touching the edge of the cover. Also, from further digipak research we have found that their barcodes are slightly in from the corner. After doing our Record Label research we decided that Atlantic Records was going to be Iceburg's label. We added in the label to the left of the barcode as we had previously seen this done from other albums. We also added a copyright symbol to again, make it look more sleek and professional. Along with this, we have also decided to add the Dobly Digital logo in aswell as we have found this present in many other artists' albums similar to our artist.

We are proud and happy with our Digipak panels as they look professional and go well with the genre of our artist and style. The feedback we have received for our front and back panels of our digipak are that it looks professional and neat and that the shots have been well thought about and go really well with out target audience.

Front Cover - Final

Here is our finished front cover of our digipak. This image was taken against a plain white wall as we wanted it to look professional, we didn't want any unnecessary objects or designs in our front cover. This is because we want the focus to be on our artist Iceburg, his name, his style, and his look. This is because he is a brand new artist and we have to make him recognizable for his fans and genre. The changes we have made since our last edit are that we have moved the 'Parental Adivsory' logo to the left and we have also taken it in slightly so that it isn't touching the corner of the cover. Again, from our digipak reseach, we found that the Parental Advisory logo is always slightly brought in and is never touching the sides of the cover. Our feedback also suggested that the right side of the cover was 'too plain' and it would be better if we weren't covering half of Iceburg's body with the Parental Advisory sign. Our artist name and album name are clear and bold. We used the blueish colour to represent our 'icy' theme. We put the artist name beside the artists face, while the album name was much lower down towards his body. There was no particular reason for this, however people have gone on to say that this works well because if the artist and album name were closer together the cover would look more bland and that this way we fill in the gaps better. Overall we as a group are happy with our front cover as we believe it looks professional yet simple as we haven't done anything fancy because Iceburg is a debut artist and still needs to establish himself onto the scene.

Digipak Draft

For our draft version of our digipak we used a template which we were given aiding us with guidelines on how big/small each panel should be. We have gone for a 6-panel digipak with a front and back cover with four inner panels which reveal shots of our artist. The shot on the bottom left was the first image to be tampered with. Our feedback was that people in the background could be seen. We then decided to change around the contrast settings on photoshop to try and fade the people in the back. We then decided to do this for the other images as well for consistency and also because they looked plain and dull. Now they look as if they are glowing to give the shots a more professional look about them. It was randomly my idea that we could use the black piece of paper in the middle image on the top as the backing for where our track listing goes. We tried writing a few tracks on it to see if it would work, we feel that it does and have since gone further with this idea.

Possible Digipak Photos

Digipak Design

We found this tutorial on www.adobetutorialz.com

For our Digipak cover we decided to give our image the 'spotlight effect' from photoshop pointing on to our artist. We were all not familiar with using this effect on photoshop and therefore had to find online tutorials in order for us to find out how to use this effect. We had trouble getting to grips with using the effect at the start and had to mess around with it a few times. We were going by an online tutorial and found that it was too vague, and we then decided to use YouTube to find another tutorial and then found it much more easier to use this effect as we could follow what the tutorial was saying. This tutotrial was much better found on YouTube

 

This is a preliminary Digipak cover for our artist's album. This is just a rough idea of what we plan to do, we may not use this image for the final cover.