DIGIPACK

FRONT COVER

BACK COVER

PRELIMINARY TASK FINISHED VIDEO

Here is our finished preliminary task video, a remake of Ben Howard's Keep Your Head Up video.

Overall I am really pleased with the outcome of my groups work and I feel that the remake video we made is as close to the original as we could get considering our resources and time. We filmed each shot a few times or till we were completely confident and happy with what we had filmed and because of all our planning we executed it well. 

DIGIPACK BACK COVERS

I took a quick picture of Jack and proceeded to sketch half of his face to then paint it with water colours, I did a few different experiments with photocopied versions but this imaged fitted in best with the conventions of the genre as it was 'arty' yet not too extreme and abstract. We thought that we should create quite an arty album front/back cover to fit in with the indie genre. I'm pleased with the outcome of this initial piece as it is the basis to produce lots of different experiments and outcomes. As I had produced a lot of different yet similar experiments I created a moving image (gif) on Photoshop to present the variations.

The original one here I added text and chose to use this font as it was the most effective I found on Photoshop, looks like a typewriter/oldish type font and it's also bold and looks good in capital lettering as well as being easy to understand and read. After putting all the required text, links and a bar code on the cover I then used this as a basis to change make a few different colour variations to see which one was the most pleasing and effective. I really like the black and white version as the image is faded and the text is the darkest factor. I also like the one that appears just after the grey scale cover as it has a real retro/vintage feel to it which I achieved by editing the saturation levels.

After altering the composition/placement of the water colour, making it fill up more of the back I edited the colours. Again I really like the black and white but this time I made it more contrasted and not as pale, but this time I incorporated some of the colour red into the text but only the text 'Advance' and 'The Interpretation' as these are the album name and the artists name. This would look good with this as a front cover. However the colours red and black don't really fit in that well with this genre as they are more of rock colours despite this I still think they go together well. I am really pleased with how well the font goes in between the drips of water colours.

These two are just quick variations. The back and white one was similar to the one above but this time I used a lot more red within it so it wasn't just black and white. The other was an accident but I really like the idea of it just not what we wanted to achieve with our back cover. 

DIGIPACK SONGLIST

On the back of our digipack there needs to be a list of 12 songs, to make our one as realistic as possible the names need to be authentic and it in with the indie genre. After looking into a number of indie song names it became apparent that they were really quite random, some were quotes, some were only a word where as others were two or three. The following are the 12 song names that we have chosen to be on the back of our digipack..
1. HUMBLE
2. ONLY GLAMOROUS IN RETROSPECT
3. PROBLEMS THE PROBLEM
4. VISUALISE
5. LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE
6. THIS ISN'T EVEN WRONG
7. OUR UTMOST
8. KEEPING UP WITH YESTERDAY
9. CAPACITY
10. ADVANCED
11. SOMETIMES BY CHANCE
12. INJUSTICE

DIGIPACK FONTS

From initial research into indie album covers most if not all used capital lettering  in a range of fonts on the front and back. I really like the old fashioned type writer font as it fits in with the genre well as it has a vintage feel to it, and is different. 

DIGIPACK FRONT COVERS

This album cover includes a lot of conventions. The big, capital text reminded me of a newspaper heading like The Independent, and the album name looks similar to a sub heading, because of this I put an overlay of a music newspaper article over the top. The format also looks to be styled from a newspaper article with a title and subheading.  I chose to use black and white not only because it fits in with the newspaper theme it's also so the name of the band and album title really stands out and draws your attention into the image. I think this cover needs to be interpreted which is the bands name so it really fits in well. The use of overlays of a few images in these four potential cover edits also achieve this interpreted style we tried to achieve.

The black and white versions of the photo look a lot more effective then the colour versions in my opinion. In both the image still needs to be interpreted a lot as they are all confusing and cause the viewer to think twice about what actually is in the picture. I feel that they all fit in with the indie genre and conventions as they're arty and interesting and very different.                                                      

This is a great potential photo for both the front and back cover of an indie album.

The idea of having the album title in the photo is really appealing. It makes the cover look a lot more authentic and also fits in with the indie genre as a few albums I researched into did similar things. The black and white image is bold itself, with the 'advance' the main subject of the photo I added a red film flare effect to draw some attention to the artist within the image.