Digipack finished product

Digipack- Creating the Product

To create the digipack I used primarily gimp(gnu image manipulation program) and photoshop, I started the design by creating a basic template, this template had the basic structure I wanted and also the kinds of colours I wanted to use. by making sure the panels worked with the template in terms of design it would help in keeping the panels cohesive.

Digipack - Planning

From my research I saw that rock digipacks often had examples of more traditional media so in my planning I decided to have a smoky or swirling effect to join the panels together and make the piece more cohesive overall.

I also knew that I wanted to incorporate some  of the ideas I had identified for the music video into the digipack, for example the washed out blue colours I was thinking of for the video inspired the main colour scheme for the digipack.

Digipack- Research and planning 2

I started by looking over my blog, using the music videos I had looked at, the images I had gathered for my moodboard and the albumcovers/digipack images I had located for my digipack research. this helped me to really cement the ideas I had gethered to create a digipack representative of the band image I was trying to create.

I began by searching for an appropriate font, I knew I wanted something modern, so without seraphs. but it also had to be slightly distressed.

Through a google search I found this site, which I had used before as it has a huge variety of different fonts. after creating a simple image with the fonts I had found I decided that I would use the font Dirt2Stickler.

I felt that it made an acceptable compromise between the distressed look I wanted, whilst also fitting the feel of the song and image for the band I had created up to this point. I had footage of the hill scene from before which I hadn't been able to use on the final film, so I chose to incorporate some of the footage into the imagery in the digipack.

Digipack - research and planning

I started researching into digi packs designs for my chosen genre with a simple google search, I managed to find these images which showed the content which bands of a similar genre used in thier digipaks. these also were similar to the feel of the song and the band which I am already building in relation to the music video, and the images I had already located for my mood board.

I also searched for similar bands on amazon and looked at the designs of their album covers and digipacks, the bands I looked at were sigur ros, mogwai which I had identified through using last fm and also nirvana

One of the motifs I noticed with rock digipaks, is that the images used contain a spread of traditional art, paintings and drawings and also photographs. so for my digipak I decided to not only include photographs of the band but also to include drawings and traditional art as well.