Digipak Front Cover Draft

Drafting for Digipak

I have begun the drafting for my digipak and will upload it in due time.

Digipak Front Cover Idea

After looking through various digipaks (as shown previously), I have begun looking at different ideas for MY digipak.

 

I asked around a few of the students into what I should call my digipak/album, and I decided that, even though I had been given many ideas (most of them sensible), I was not going to have the title of the album on my front or back cover of the digipak. This is a common theme through albums, but you do see it often in alternative albums, mostly older ones.

Duie to this, I have been looking at other album covers outside of the 1990s, mainly ones from the late 1980s, artists such as The Smiths, The Stone Roses and U2 among others, in order to gain inspiration and tritle-less covers.

 

The album cover that has most attracted my attention is Achtung Baby by U2 (1991). The use of 16 different images, only three of those eluding any idea of who the band is, creates a great effect, wherein which the band's identity and the genre of the music are contained within the contrasting imagery. Other things, such as that the title of the album does not appear, and that the colours are quite dark, with bits of white spread across to contrast.

Storyboard - First Minute 30

Over half term, I used the time I had when I wasnt filming to help create my storyboard. Here is the first minute 30 seconds:

Things To Do

I need to get these things done by 11th December:

• Storyboards
• Two different drafts of my Digipak front and back cover
• One draft of the digipak insert
• A draft of my website - With necessary research
• Plans and outlines of film and shoot days
• Still/screenshots of filming and photography (for digipak and website)

Using The Editing Software

I have begun to learn how to use the editing software for making my video. Doing this early will help me be ready and able to use it fully once I have done all my filming.

Inspirations & Ideas From Other Bands' Videos - Continued

Another band I looked at was Oasis. It was quite hard to actually get a couple of their videos, as they don't appear on any of the music websites.