DIGIPACK PLANNING

After looking at loads of different album covers for typical indie bands, it became clear that the covers usually involved artwork of some sort as they were all very arty covers. In the media lesson we had today we sat and discussed what we thought would make a good cover, we need to create one that incorporates the conventions of the genre as well. One idea that we all liked was to create a cover that had a half and half of Jacks face, one side the photo and the other a water colour piece that blends into the background. We also decided that the background needs to be a creamy colour and that the album needs a vintage type effect to make it as indie looking as possible. As well as this we liked the sound of crumpled paper as a background and use of mix media on top of a photo then scanned in, materials such as glitter, newspaper, ink and bleach. A combination of these would create a very individual cover. From looking at other album covers we noticed that a lot of them use capital letters with quite an arty font so we intend to use something similar to this. Also we thought about having the front of his face and the back of his back. Other ideas we like are to use pencil drawings, brown lettering, stamps/letter borders, words embedded within the actual photo,and the use of 'indie' outfits. To create a successful digipack we need to represent exactly who our artist is, their name, the album name, front cover, inlay, back cover, an effective font, list of songs in the album, bar codes and a few other aspects.